Setting up an Ethereum development environment

Follow these instructions to obtain the Ethereum development tools and start up an Ethereum private local blockchain environment (primarily used to run/deploy your smart contract to a local blockchain).

Installing Truffle

Open up the command line and run the following command:

npm install -g truffle

Installing Ganache

Open up the command line and install Ganache's command-line interface as follows:

npm install -g ganache-cli

Creating a Truffle project

To initialize a new DApp project, we can run the truffle init command to initialize an empty Truffle project. This will create the DApp directory structure, including apps, contracts, and tests with Truffle configurations. Since Truffle Boxes provide many working templates, in our DApp example, we will use pet-shop box—a JQuery version of a JavaScript UI library—to develop our crowdfunding DApp example. 

Create a folder called Crowdfunding, open a command-line prompt, navigate to the  Crowdfunding folder...