Frontend tools for Blockchain Developers
Beyond the limit of NodeJS
Blockchain is definetely an exciting technologies. It's complex but very powerful. Don't think only to cryptocurrencies. Blockchain can be used for many others projects! Here I want to have some ideas about the tool we can use to build innovative and amazing applications with small efforts. No more talking then. Let's start!
Truffle framework
The most popular Ethereum development framework
Truffle is a development environment, testing framework and asset pipeline for Ethereum, aiming to make life as an Ethereum developer easier.
Truffle is easy to learn, it has a very good documentation and it offers additional tools like Ganache and Drizzle to help any developer to work. You cannot ask more. Highly recommended!
Ganache
Personal blockchain for Ethereum development
Ganache is your personal blockchain for Ethereum development.
Drizzle
Reactive Ethereum datastore for dapp UIs
Drizzle is a collection of front-end libraries that make writing dapp frontends easier and more predictable. The core of Drizzle is based on a Redux store, so you have access to the spectacular development tools around Redux.
React JS
A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
Embark framework
Build Powerful DApps Easily
Embark is a fast, simple and powerful framework to help you develop and deploy Decentralized Applications
Web3 JS
Ethereum JavaScript API
The Ethereum compatible JavaScript APIwhich implements the Generic JSON RPC spec. It's available on npm as a node module, for bower and component as an embeddable js and as a meteor.js package.
Conclusions
As you can see, you have a lot of great tools to work with. Just try the Truffle framework with Ganach and Drizzle and you will discover a great stack! Think about Ethereum and the IPFS protocol or cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to build great DApps.