Create First DApp Using Truffle and Ganache

Create First DApp Using Truffle and Ganache, Learn to create DApp.

This tutorial will take you through the process of building your first dapp—an adoption tracking system for a pet shop!

This tutorial is meant for those with a basic knowledge of Ethereum and smart contracts, who have some knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, but who are new to dapps.

1. In this tutorial we will be covering:
   1. Setting up the development environment
   2. Creating a Truffle project using a Truffle Box
   3. Writing the smart contract
   4. Compiling and migrating the smart contract
   5. Testing the smart contract
   6. Creating a user interface to interact with the smart contract
   7. Interacting with the dapp in a browser.

Pete Scandlon of Pete’s Pet Shop is interested in using Ethereum as an efficient way to handle their pet adoptions. The store has space for 16 pets at a given time, and they already have a database of pets. As an initial proof of concept, Pete wants to see a dapp which associates an Ethereum address with a pet to be adopted.

The website structure and styling will be supplied. Our job is to write the smart contract and front-end logic for its usage.

Truffle is a world class development environment, testing framework and asset pipeline for blockchains using the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), aiming to make life as a developer easier. With Truffle, you get:

• Built-in smart contract compilation, linking, deployment and binary management.
• Automated contract testing for rapid development.
• Scriptable, extensible deployment & migrations framework.
• Network management for deploying to any number of public & private networks.
• Package management with EthPM & NPM, using the ERC190 standard.
• Interactive console for direct contract communication.
• Configurable build pipeline with support for tight integration.
• External script runner that executes scripts within a Truffle environment.