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The Blockchain Developer

A Practical Guide for Designing, Implementing, Publishing, Testing, and Securing Distributed Blockchain-based Projects

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Authors:

  • Learn to work with Blockchain to create front-end wallets in React or Angular that work with Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, NEO and Hyperledger

  • Filled with practical, real-world code examples that ensure you can learn by doing and become a well-rounded Blockchain developer

  • Written by Elad Elrom, coder, technical lead and author of four technical books, well used to distilling difficult concepts into easy-to-understand instructions

Buying options

eBook USD 34.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4842-4847-8
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
  • Exclusive offer for individuals only
  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Softcover Book USD 44.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Blockchain Basics

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 1-30
  3. Blockchain Nodes

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 31-72
  4. Creating Your Own Blockchain

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 73-119
  5. Bitcoin Wallets and Transactions

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 121-171
  6. Ethereum Wallets and Smart Contracts

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 173-212
  7. EOS.IO Wallets and Smart Contracts

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 213-256
  8. NEO Blockchain and Smart Contracts

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 257-298
  9. Hyperledger

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 299-348
  10. Build Dapps with Angular: Part I

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 349-394
  11. Build Dapps with Angular: Part II

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 395-418
  12. Security and Compliance

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 419-466
  13. Blockchain Beyond Crypto

    • Elad Elrom
    Pages 467-501
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 503-513

About this book

Become a Blockchain developer and design, build, publish, test, maintain and secure scalable decentralized Blockchain projects using Bitcoin, Ethereum, NEO, EOS and Hyperledger.  

This book helps you understand Blockchain beyond development and crypto to better harness its power and capability. You will learn tips to start your own project, and best practices for testing, security, and even compliance. Immerse yourself in this technology and review key topics such as cryptoeconomics, coding your own Blockchain P2P network, different consensus mechanisms, decentralized ledger, mining, wallets, blocks, and transactions.  

Additionally, this book provides you with hands-on practical tools and examples for creating smart contracts and dApps for different blockchains such as Ethereum, NEO, EOS, and Hyperledger. Aided by practical, real-world coding examples, you’ll see how to build dApps with Angular utilizing typescript from start to finish, connect to the blockchain network locally on a test network, and publish on the production mainnet environment. 

Don’t be left out of the next technology revolution – become a Blockchain developer using The Blockchain Developer today.

What You’ll Learn

  • Explore the Blockchain ecosystem is and the different consensus mechanisms
  • Create miners, wallets, transactions, distributed networks and DApps
  • Review the main features of Bitcoin: Ethereum, NEO and EOS, and Hyperledger are
  • Interact with popular node clients as well as implementing your own Blockchain
  • Publish and test your projects for security and scalability

Who This Book Is For

Developers, architects and engineers who are interested in learning about Blockchain or implementing Blockchain into a new greenfield project or integrating Blockchain into a brownfield project. Technical entrepreneurs, technical investors or even executives who want to better understand Blockchain technology and its potential.


Keywords

  • blockchain
  • ethereum
  • solidity
  • DApp
  • angular
  • react
  • hyperledger
  • NEO
  • EOS
  • bitcoin
  • golang

Authors and Affiliations

  • New York, USA

    Elad Elrom

About the author

Elad Elrom is a coder, technical lead and a technical writer.  As a writer, he has co-authored four technical books. Elad has consulted for a variety of clients, from large corporations such as HBO, Viacom, NBC Universal, and Weight Watchers, to smaller startups. Aside from coding, Elad is also a certified PADI dive instructor, motorcycle enthusiast, as well as an accomplished certified pilot.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Blockchain Developer

  • Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide for Designing, Implementing, Publishing, Testing, and Securing Distributed Blockchain-based Projects

  • Authors: Elad Elrom

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4847-8

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: Elad Elrom 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-4846-1Published: 24 July 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4847-8Published: 23 July 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 513

  • Number of Illustrations: 169 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Web Development

Buying options

eBook USD 34.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4842-4847-8
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
  • Exclusive offer for individuals only
  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Softcover Book USD 44.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)