Sending Ether to an Ethereum Smart Contract with Web3 and Truffle
This project uses Node Version Manager : nvm, Node,Node Package Manager : npm, Web3, Truffle and Ganache-CLI. Go check them out if you don't have them locally installed.
$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash
$ nvm install node
$ npm install -g web3
$ npm install -g truffle
Use truffle init to create a bare Truffle project with no smart contracts included.
Created MyContract.sol under contracts folder and added all calling functions for smart contract and reading data from blockchain in it.
After that I have created the script file index.js under contracts folder and added all code for running transactions on our testing framework using Truffle and Ganache.
Run truffle compile to compile the contracts. After compiling you will have a build folder in your main folder and it contains all ABI files ( abi is a json that describes all the functions of smart contract that can be called from outside ) made after the compilation step
Starting ganache instance with truffle develop command to deploy the contract. Once the truffle console is ready run migrate --reset. Now you can see the network key has changed in MyContract.json under build and contains deployed address
Finally ran node index.js to run the script
Feel free to dive in! Open an issue or submit PRs.