There are following two distinct phases in the overall modification and writing of transactions to a ledger using Ethereum:
- The first stage is about creating a transaction and putting the transaction in a transaction pool.
- The second phase that happens periodically is to get all transactions from a transaction pool and mine them. Mining here means writing those transactions to the Ethereum database or ledger.
From this description, it would be a time-consuming process if the same process is used for development and testing purposes. To ease the process of development and test of solutions and smart contracts on Ethereum, ganache-cli was created. It was earlier known as TestRPC. ganache-cli by itself contains both the Ethereum transaction processing and mining functionality. Moreover, there is no waiting period for mining of transactions. The transactions are...
