Ethereum development documentation
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This documentation is designed to help you build with Ethereum. It covers Ethereum as a concept, explains the Ethereum tech stack, and documents advanced topics for more complex applications and use cases.
This is an open-source community effort, so feel free to suggest new topics, add new content, and provide examples wherever you think it might be helpful. All documentation can be edited via GitHub โ if you're unsure how, follow these instructions(opens in a new tab).
Development modules
If this is your first attempt at Ethereum development, we recommend starting at the beginning and working your way through like a book.
Foundational topics
- Intro to Ethereum โ A quick overview of Ethereum
- Intro to Ether โ A quick overview of Ether
- Intro to dapps โ An introduction to decentralized applications
- Web2 vs Web3 โ The fundamental differences that blockchain-based applications provide
- Accounts โ Entities in the network that can hold a balance and send transactions
- Transactions โ Transfers and other actions that cause Ethereum's state to change
- Blocks โ The way transactions are batched to ensure state is synchronised across all actors
- Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) โ The EVM handles all the computation on the Ethereum network
- Gas โ Computational power required to process transactions, paid for in ETH by transaction senders
- Nodes and clients โ The individuals participating in the network and the software they run to verify transactions
- Networks โ Implementations of Ethereum including test networks
- Consensus mechanisms โ How the individual nodes of a distributed network agree on the current state of the system
Ethereum stack
- Intro to the stack โ An overview of the Ethereum/web3 stack
- Smart contracts โ Programs that reside at an Ethereum address and run functions when triggered by transactions
- Development networks โ Local blockchain environments used to test dapps before deployment
- Development frameworks โ Tools that make developing with Ethereum easier
- Ethereum client APIs โ Convenience libraries that allow your web app to interact with Ethereum and smart contracts
- Data and analytics โ How blockchain data is aggregated, organized and implemented into dapps
- Storage โ Decentralized storage structures and mechanism
- Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) โ The best environments to write dapp code
- Programming languages โ How to get started with Ethereum using languages you may already know
Advanced
- Bridges โ An overview of bridging for developers
- Standards โ Agreed upon protocols for maintaining efficiency and accessibility of projects to the community
- Maximal extractable value (MEV) โ How value is extracted from the Ethereum blockchain beyond the block reward
- Oracles โ How information is injected into the Ethereum blockchain
- Scaling โ Methods for preserving decentralization and security as Ethereum grows
- Data availability โ docs-nav-data-availability-description
- Networking layer โ Explanation of Ethereum's networking layer
- Data structures and encoding โ Explanation of the data structures and encoding schema used across the Ethereum stack