@appliedblockchain/cobalt

Summary

Fast, lightweight ethereum dapp prototyping.

What is it? What's the difference compared to truffle?

Truffle team did a great job, if truffle framework works for you - you should stay with it.

Cobalt is an alternative take on ethereum dapp development. It's lightweight, no magic (globals etc.), instant compilation (for ultra-short modify-compile-test cycle) same web3@1.x api in tests and production code, straight forward deployment without migrations (we think dapps have more complex deployment story than patterns based on traditional database migrations), small codebase.

Cobalt gives you decorated web3 with:

• web3.require('Foo.sol') - which compiles solidity files and makes them available for deployment, and
• const foo = async web3.deploy('Foo', [], { from, gas, links?: { ... }, ... }) - to deploy a contract.

That's all - the rest are helpers to simplify common tasks during dapp development.

Prerequisites

cobalt uses the solc command-line compiler, make sure you've got it:

brew update
brew upgrade
brew tap ethereum/ethereum
brew install solidity
brew linkapps solidity

Confirm it's installed:

solc --version

If you want to setup Circle CI or similar CI, you can fetch solc compiler with:

wget https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/releases/download/v0.4.23/solc-static-linux && chmod +x solc-static-linux && sudo mv solc-static-linux /usr/bin/solc

Installation

npm i -D @appliedblockchain/cobalt

Usage

See examples directory.

Deploy

To deploy a contract from your terminal you can use something like:

cobalt-deploy -g 5000000 -f 0xfa9c654833f3e977b0f7c07c60bb69b656a47af7 -s HelloWorld.sol

Example jest test

./contracts/Foo.sol

  pragma solidity ^0.5.9;

  contract Foo {
    string myVariable;

    function sendFoo(string data) public {
      myVariable = data;
    }

    function getFoo() constant public returns (string) {
      return myVariable;
    }
  }

./test/foo.test.js

const { join } = require('path')
const { map, first } = require('lodash')
const { web3, accounts } = require('@appliedblockchain/cobalt/web3')({
  root: join(__dirname, '..', 'contracts'), // Contracts directory: if removed, defaults to `./contracts`.
  accounts: 10,
  logger: console
})

const addresses = map(accounts, 'address')
const from = first(addresses)
const gas = 50000000

// Compile one or more .sol files.
web3.require('Foo.sol')

afterAll(async () => {
  web3.close()
})

describe('Foo', () => {
  let Foo

  test('deploys', async () => {
    const contractConstructorArgs = []
    Foo = await web3.deploy(
      'Foo',
      contractConstructorArgs,
      { from, gas }
    )

    expect(typeof Foo.options.address).toBe('string')
    expect(Foo.options.address.length > 1).toBe(true)
  })

  test('sets and gets data', async () => {
    const data = 'someData'
    await Foo.methods.sendFoo(data).send({ from, gas })

    const result = await Foo.methods.getFoo().call()

    expect(result).toEqual(data)
  })
})

License

MIT License

Copyright 2018 Applied Blockchain

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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