Truffle and Node

If you skipped the Angular chapter, you need to do the following first:

• Inside your truffle-practice folder, create a new folder called chapter5

Now, let's get started with Truffle and Node. First, create a new folder called truffle-node.

Inside the truffle-node folder, we need to initialize a Truffle project.

So, run the following command in your Terminal, while inside the truffle-node folder:

truffle init

Your truffle-node folder structure should now look like this:

.
├── contracts
├── migrations
├── test
├── truffle-config.js
└── truffle.js

To "run" this Truffle project, we need to have a JavaScript file to run as well as a package.json file that states our dependencies. To generate the package.json file, simply run npm init in your Terminal, while in the truffle-node folder.

Now, our folder should have the package.json file.

.
├── contracts
├── migrations
├── package.json
├── test
├── truffle-config.js
└── truffle.js

Next, let's add web3 as a dependency of this project. To do this...