Tools for solidity development environment

Smart contract development is still in its infancy. Creating such contracts and interacting with them in a convenient manner can be done in a multitude of ways.  The following powerful tools can be used to build, monitor, and deploy your smart contracts for development on the Ethereum platform.

Browser-based IDE

In this section, we will be looking at onlien browser based tools such as Remix and EthFiddle.

Remix

Remix is a powerful, open source, smart contract tool that helps you write solidity code just from the browser. It supports compile, run, analysis, testing, and debugger options. The following three types of environments are available with Remix when developing and testing:

• JavaScript VM: Remix comes with five Ethereum accounts, and each account is deposited with 100 ethers as default. This is convenient for testing smart contracts in the development phase. Mining is not required as it is done automatically. This option is a good choice when you...