This chapter covers
- Navigating end-to-end Dapp development guided by a roadmap
- Designing and developing an educational credentialing application
- Developing a test-driven prototype on a local test chain
- Configuring and transforming the prototype Dapp for public deployment
- Creating a distributable web app to enable decentralized participants
This chapter provides a roadmap for Dapp development from beginning to end. In the preceding chapters, you learned how to design, develop, deploy, and test smart contracts and decentralized web applications (Dapps). You learned the core idea of blockchain technology and its application. You explored a wide variety of applications, from a simple counter to asset tokenization. You studied a new language, Solidity, for programming smart contracts, and tools such as Remix and Truffle to process and test them. Blockchain programming is not meant for data-intensive image processing; neither is it for computationally intensive scientific computation. In the case of a smart contract, for example, it is not good practice to use a smart contract for storing multidimensional image processing or for long-running, complex computations.