Preparing for smart contract development

Before we dive into development of smart contracts and further testing and deployment procedures, it is important to be ready with the tools and other modules, along with the preparation of the development process that will help create the desired results.

Remix

Remix is currently the official IDE available online; if you are more comfortable in another IDE, you can check whether Solidity is a supported language and start working on the same. The following is a screenshot of what Remix looks like:

Remix is a fully functional online IDE, with the required features such as the compiling of code, running, connecting with localhost, publishing code on GitHub, and so on.

When Remix is opened for the first time, the Ballotcontract is loaded. 

Geth and Mist

We can run test nodes using Geth, although the task of connecting and mining of Ether in TestNet or private net can also be done using the official Ethereum client, which is a Mist browser working on top of...