DappStarter is a full-stack development environment for blockchains. It supports your choice of blockchain and blockchain language as well as an integrated front end user experience in your choice of client side framework.
Developers can use DappStarter to quickly and easily create create blockchain applications. DappStarter generates a full-stack blockchain application with smart contract code, tests for your code, a web app, and a server-side API.
Smart contract code
Tests for smart contract code
Web app
Server-side API
DappStarter is intended to provide a framework that developers can customize, it is not intended to provide a complete, full-stack application out-of-the-box.
Term | Definition |
Blockchain | Blockchains are the underlying technology for the decentralized web. |
Smart contract | A smart contract is the code executed on a blockchain. |
Dapp | A computer application that runs on a distributed computing system. If you’ve ever developed “serverless” apps on Azure or Amazon this is a similar concept. |
Solidity | An object-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts. It is used for implementing smart contracts on various blockchain platforms, most notably, Ethereum. Solidity is similar to JavaScript. |