Ethereum Development with Go

A little guide book on Ethereum Development with Go (golang)

Online

https://goethereumbook.org

E-book

The e-book is avaiable in different formats.

• PDF
• EPUB
• MOBI

Languages

• English
• Chinese中文

Contents

• Introduction
• Client
  • Setting up the Client
• Accounts
  • Account Balances
  • Account Token Balances
  • Generating New Wallets
  • Keystores
  • HD Wallets
  • Address Check
• Transactions
  • Querying Blocks
  • Querying Transactions
  • Transferring ETH
  • Transferring Tokens
  • Subscribing to New Blocks
  • Create Raw Transaction
  • Send Raw Transaction
• Smart Contracts
  • Smart Contract Compilation & ABI
  • Deploying a Smart Contract
  • Loading a Smart Contract
  • Querying a Smart Contract
  • Writing to a Smart Contract
  • Reading Smart Contract Bytecode
  • Querying an ERC20 Token Smart Contract
• Event Logs
  • Subscribing to Event Logs
  • Reading Event Logs
  • Reading ERC-20 Token Event Logs
  • Reading 0x Protocol Event Logs
• Signatures
  • Generating Signatures
  • Verifying Signatures
• Testing
  • Faucets
  • Using a Simulated Client
• Swarm
  • Setting Up Swarm
  • Uploading Files to Swarm
  • Download Files From Swarm
• Whisper
  • Connecting Whisper Client
  • Generating Whisper Key Pair
  • Sending Messages on Whisper
  • Subscribing to Whisper Messages
• Utilities
  • Collection of Utility Functions
• Glossary
• Resources

Help & Support

• Join the #ethereum channel on the gophers slack for Go (golang) help

• The Ethereum StackExchange is a great place to ask general Ethereum question and Go specific questions

Development

Install dependencies:

make install

Run gitbook server:

make serve

Generating e-book in pdf, mobi, and epub format:

make ebooks

Visit http://localhost:4000

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome!

If making general content fixes:

• please double check for typos and cite any relevant sources in the comments.

If updating code examples:

• make sure to update both the code in the markdown files as well as the code in the code folder.

If wanting to add a new translation, follow these instructions:

1. Set up development environment

2. Add language to LANGS.md

3. Copy the the en directory and rename it with the 2 letter language code of the language you're translating to (e.g. zh)

4. Translate content

5. Set "root" to "./" in book.json if not already set

Thanks

Thanks to @qbig and @gzuhlwang for the Chinese translation.

And thanks to all the contributors who have contributed to this guide book.

License

Released under the CC0-1.0 license.

© Miguel Mota