What is in your smart contract development toolbox (recommendations appreciated)?

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My toolbox:

Please add your toolbox or any recommendations

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I need to play with @ajsantander's Pocketh

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A tool I wrote to help me with Ethereum interactions is Ethereal. Allows you to interact with different chains and do things like deploy contracts, transfer ERC-20 tokens, find out network parameters such as TPS and GPS, and lots of other things.

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Thanks for sharing Ethereal @mcdee

Welcome to the community. If you have a moment it would be awesome if you could either Introduce yourself here! or let us know What are you working on? that would be great.

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The tool box that I’ve used have evolved with time. Right now they are:

  • Remix
  • OpenZeppelin
  • Embark
  • Infura
  • Ganache
  • MetaMask
  • Node & npm
  • React app
  • MongoDB
  • VSCode
  • GitHub

I’ve left Truffle as I felt it needs more documentation & deployment automation. Hopefully they’ll get better soon.

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Thanks @RockmanR. If you haven't already, it might be worth giving the Truffle team that feedback.

I learnt to use Embark during the Developing Blockchain Applications course I did. I really like the easy test coverage report generation. Though I am much more comfortable with Truffle so have gone back to using Truffle.

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@abcoathup At first I was raising my concern about it in twitter, then one of the team (Nicholas) found out and asked me about the issues. My concerns were:

  1. Truffle is based on web3js and web3js documentation is almost unreadable (that was a year ago, not sure about now). So this will harm Truffle product unless truffle team contribute to improve web3js Docs.
  2. Truffle documentation needs updated, specially the truffle boxes/tutorials.

He was very collaborative and told me that they are already working on issue 1.

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Great that they are working on the concerns you raised.

The quality of documentation (including keeping up to date) appears to be an ecosystem wide issue, I assume partly due to the nature of how quickly the tech stack is evolving. Though I believe documentation has improved massively.

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What about using ZOS? I’ve never really been a fan of the migrations so I enjoy ZOS for deployment much more. What do you like about Truffle besides comfort? (Curious!)

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I am new to ZeppelinOS. I was aware of it but hadn't played with it or used it in anger (deployed to mainnet). I am really enjoying learning ZeppelinOS.

That is a tough one. Comfort plays a big part. To learn to develop smart contracts, to test, and to deploy was such a hard won accomplishment (documentation was pretty thin in 2017) that it is hard to separate likes from the comfort. Comfort means that I can spin up a project and write some sample code and deploy locally and to public testnets very quickly and easily which is a huge plus.

My preference is to use a framework that is used by the majority of developers. I haven't seen any stats of Truffle vs Embark though.