Best Web3 Tools
Introduction
While there are a number of web3 tools, these 5 stand out as being the most popular and useful. Let’s take a closer look at them!
Alchemy
Alchemy is a tool for creating and managing Ethereum smart contracts. It’s a web application that allows you to create, deploy, and interact with smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.
It provides a user interface for creating and deploying smart contracts as well as an API for interacting with those contracts from other applications.
Pinanta
Pinanta is an Ethereum browser extension that allows you to interact with the blockchain. It’s available for Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers and can be downloaded here.
Pinanta was created by the Ethereum Foundation as a developer tool for building DApps (decentralized applications). The project is open source, which means that anyone can contribute to it or use it in their own projects without having to pay licensing fees.
IPFS
IPFS is a peer-to-peer distributed file system. It combines features of Git, BitTorrent, and HTTP. IPFS aims to replace HTTP with a content-addressable, peer-to-peer hypermedia distribution protocol. The project has been in development since 2014 and released its first public beta in January 2018.
IPFS provides a high throughput content-addressed block storage model that does not need blocks or chains (like blockchain). It instead uses Merkle DAGs as raw bits of data without any structure imposed on them by the network itself — this allows for greater scalability than existing blockchains while still maintaining all their advantages (e.g., immutability).
Web3.JS
Web3.js is a JavaScript library that allows you to interact with a local or remote Ethereum node. It provides an API similar to the web3.eth.defaultAccount, but with two additional features:
- A built-in provider for handling transactions and their status (e.g., transaction receipt).
- The ability to create and sign transactions, send them to the network and retrieve their status
Solidity
Solidity is a contract-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts. It is designed to target the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Solidity is based on ECMAScript syntax, making it a strongly typed, static-typed language.
React
React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It’s used by companies like Facebook, Instagram and Airbnb.
React is developed by Facebook and Instagram. It’s a declarative, efficient and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. React has a small API surface area because it focuses on one thing: the view layer (UI).
Node
Node is a JavaScript runtime that runs on the server side. Node is used for building fast and scalable network applications, as well as web applications. It can be used for networking, data streaming, and much more.
Node is built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine (the same one that powers Google Chrome), which makes it an excellent choice for developers who want to build web applications in JavaScript but don’t want to use another browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Axios
Axios is a promise-based HTTP client for the browser and node.js. It’s used to make requests to an API, and it supports cross-domain requests, caching, validation, authentication, and more.
Axios is a replacement for XMLHttpRequest (XHR).
mongoDB
MongoDB is a NoSQL database, but it’s also so much more than that. It’s a document database, meaning that it stores JSON documents and uses dynamic schemas. This means you don’t have to define your data structure beforehand (or even at all), which makes it perfect for storing the kinds of data you want to store in Web3 apps!
Conclusion
We hope you’ve found this guide useful! If there are any other Web3 tools you think we should add, please let us know in the comments below.
