This post walks through the steps to creating a simple Ethereum DApp using Web3.js and Truffle and setting up monitoring of the API transactions sent to the blockchain. This article also provides an explanation of various pieces of technology involved in developing DApps.
What Is Blockchain?
Decentralized Applications (or DApps) are applications that do not rely on a centralized backend running in AWS or Azure that power traditional web and mobile applications (outside of hosting the frontend code itself). Instead, the application interacts directly with a blockchain, which can be thought of as a distributed cluster of nodes analogous to applications interacting directly with a “masterless” cluster of Cassandra nodes with full replication on every peer in an untrusted peer-to-peer network.
