Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript: Build your very own Blockchain and decentralized network with JavaScript and Node.js
Language: English
Published by Packt Publishing, 2018
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- Title
- Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript: Build your very own Blockchain and decentralized network with JavaScript and Node.js
- Author
- Eric Traub
- Publisher
- Packt Publishing
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1789618827
- ISBN 13
- 9781789618822
- Item weight
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Explore the essentials of blockchain technology with JavaScript to develop highly secure bitcoin-like applications
Key Features
- Develop bitcoin and blockchain-based cryptocurrencies using JavaScript
- Create secure and high-performant blockchain networks
- Build custom APIs and decentralized networks to host blockchain applications
Book Description
Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript begins by giving you a clear understanding of what a blockchain is. You'll then set up an environment to build your very own blockchain and learn to add various functionalities to it. By adding functionalities to mine new blocks, creating transactions, and securing your blockchain, you'll gain an in-depth understanding of how a blockchain functions.
As you make your way through the chapters, you'll learn to build an APIserver to interact with your blockchain and understand how to host this server on a decentralized network. You'll also learn about the consensus algorithm and use it to verify data and keep network nodes synchronized. In the concluding chapters, you'll build your own blockchain prototype in code and gain a thorough understanding of how blockchain technology actually works and why is it so secure and valuable.
By the end of this book, you will have understood how decentralized blockchain networks function and why decentralization is such an important feature for securing blockchain.
What you will learn
- Gain an in-depth understanding of blockchain and the environment setup
- Create your very own decentralized blockchain network from scratch
- Build and test various endpoints necessary to create a decentralized network
- Learn about proof of work and the hashing algorithm to secure data
- Mine new blocks, create transactions and store them in blocks
- Explore consensus algorithm and use it to verify network nodes for synchronized data
Who This Book Is For
Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript is for JavaScript developers who wish to learn about blockchain programming or build their own blockchain using JavaScript frameworks.
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About the Author
Eric Traub currently works as a software engineer in New York City. He has extensive experience working as a teacher and instructing people in a variety of different subjects. He changed his career from teaching to software engineering because of the excitement it brings to him and the passion that he has for it. He is now lucky enough to have the opportunity to combine both of these passions - software engineering and teaching!
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