How to build a dApp on Ethereum

During this project we'll have a look at the mechanics of truffle.js, and successfully test, compile and migrate a sample contract, and then build a dApp around it. The contract in question will be a voting contract (meaning that people can vote on issues at hand).

Overview

What are the requirements?:

This section will cover requirements of programming language, skills viewers should have to understand and follow this tutorial.

Have a synced eth blockchain (geth, etc) - rinkeby will be used, you can use mainnet!
Familiarity with Javascript
Familiarity with Blockchain
Familiarity with Ether, Eth tokens and Ethereum, specifically
And the most important is: don’t panic!

What is the target audience?:

You want to make use of Truffle.js for deploying Eth contracts
You want to see how Eth contracts, tokens are configured, deployed
You have any interest in the development aspect of crypto

When are the streaming sessions (streaming schedule)?

4:00pm Eastern 9/24/2018
9/25/2018
9/26/2018

Project Outline

Project Overview:

Session 1: Setting-up the Environment & getting started with code

What is an Eth contract? What are MEW, MetaMask and other Blockchain interfaces? - synced Eth blockchain (rinkeby in our case), MetaMask - download, setup, backup!, switching among ‘nets - Truffle.js, Installing oher dependencies & started with code - 37min

Session 2: List Candidates for Voting

Deployment + Viewing our Public Variable
Further code in smart contract + testing
Client-side application

Session 2.5 Recreating environment

Get to point where we left off

Session 3: Cast Votes

Code + Testing + Client-side voting

Session 4: Redo code from Session 3

Recreating Success from Previous Livestream Where we Did Session 3 (Code + Testing + Client-side voting for casting votes)

Session 5: Watch Events in the Solidity Smart Contract Code

Code, testing, usage of firing events from within the smart contract, then creating our own custom events + Looking at other DApps