11 A roadmap to Dapp development
This chapter covers,
· A roadmap for end-to-end Dapp development
· Design and development of an educational credentialing application
· Test-driven prototype development on local test chain
· Configuring and transforming the prototype Dapp for public deployment
· Modular web client to enable decentralized participants
This chapter provides a road map for Dapp development from the beginning to the end. In the last chapters, you’ve learned how to design, develop, deploy, and test smart contracts and decentralized web applications (Dapp). You learned the core idea of blockchain technology and its application. You explored a wide variety of applications starting 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, nor is it for computationally intensive scientific computation. In the case of a smart contract (SC), for example, it is not a good practice to use an SC for storing multi-dimensional image processing nor for long-running, complex computations. In this chapter, let’s put all these concepts together not only to reinforce the concepts discussed but also to comprehend how and why blockchain programming is different from traditional web application development.