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Developer Resources

Guides, resources, and tools for developers building on Ethereum.

Getting started

If you’re new to developing with Ethereum, you’re in the right place. These guides written by the Ethereum community will introduce you to the basics of the Ethereum stack and introduce core concepts that might be different from other app development you’re familiar with.

Need a more basic non-technical primer first? Check out ethereum.org/learn.

Smart Contract Languages

Any program that runs on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is commonly referred to as a “smart contract”. The most popular languages for writing smart contracts on Ethereum are Solidity and Vyper, though there are others under development.

Vyper Security focused language for Ethereum, based on Python.

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Developer tools

Ethereum has a large and growing number of tools to help developers build, test, and deploy their applications. Below are the most popular tools to get you started. If you want to dive deeper, check out this comprehensive list.

Truffle A development environment, testing framework, build pipeline, and other tools.

Embark A development environment, testing framework, and other tools integrated with Ethereum, IPFS, and Whisper.

Waffle A framework for advanced smart contract development and testing (based on ethers.js).

Etherlime Ethers.js based framework for dapp development (Solidity & Vyper), deployment, debugging, testing and more.

Buidler A task runner for Ethereum smart contract developers

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Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

Remix Web-based IDE with built in static analysis, and a test blockchain virtual machine.

Superblocks Web-based IDE with built in browser blockchain virtual machine, MetaMask integration, transaction logger, and other features.

EthFiddle Web-based IDE that lets you write, compile, and debut your smart contract.

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Frontend Javascript APIs

Web3.js Ethereum Javascript API

Ethers.js Complete Ethereum wallet implementation and utilities in JavaScript and TypeScript

light.js A high-level reactive JS library optimized for light clients.

Web3-wrapper Typescript alternative to Web3.js

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Security tools

Slither Solidity static analysis framework written in Python 3

MythX Security analysis API for Ethereum smart contracts

Securify Security scanner for Ethereum smart contracts

More on formal verification

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Testing tools

Solidity-Coverage Alternative solidity code coverage tool.

hevm Implementation of the EVM made specifically for unit testing and debugging smart contracts.

Whiteblock Genesis An end-to-end development sandbox and testing platform for blockchain.

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Block explorers

Block explorers are services that let you browse the Ethereum blockchain (and its testnets), by finding information about specific transactions, blocks, contracts, and other on-chain activity.

Testnets and Faucets

The Ethereum community maintains multiple testnets. These are used by developers to test their applications under different conditions before deploying to the Ethereum mainnet.

Ropsten Proof of Work blockchain, test-ether can be mined

Rinkeby Proof of Authority blockchain, maintained by the Geth development team

Goerli Cross-client Proof of Authority blockchain, built and maintained by the Goerli community

Clients & Running your own node

The Ethereum network is made up of many nodes who run compatible client software. The majority of these nodes run Geth or Parity, each of which can be configured in different ways according to your needs.

Geth Ethereum clients written in Go

Parity Ethereum client written in Rust

Ethnode Run an Ethereum node (Geth or Parity) for local development.

Ethereum Node Resources

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Best Practices, Patterns, and Anti-patterns

DappSys Safe, simple, flexible building-blocks for smart-contracts.

OpenZeppelin Library for secure smart contract development.

aragonOS Patterns for upgradeability & permission control.

Smart Contract Weakness Registry

Smart Contract Security Best Practices Guide

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Developer Support & Training

Ethereum Stackexchange

Solidity Gitter Chatroom

All Ethereum Gitter Chatrooms

Cryptozombies Learn to code games on ethereum.

Chainshot Web based dapp coding tutorials.

Blockgeeks Online courses on blockchain technology

DappUniversity Learn to build decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain

Ethernaut Solidity based wargame where each level is a contract to be hacked

UI/UX

Standards

The Ethereum community has adopted many standards that are helpful to developers. Typically these are introduced as Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), which are discussed by community members through a standard process.

Certain EIPs relate to application-level standards (e.g. a standard smart-contract format), which are introduced as Ethereum Requests for Comment (ERC). Many ERCs are critical standards used widely across the Ethereum ecosystem.