Truffle: Deploying a Smart Contract

Learn how to deploy a simple Solidity-based smart contract to Evmos using the Truffle environment

Truffle (opens new window) is a development framework for deploying and managing Solidity (opens new window) smart contracts.

Install Dependencies

First, install the latest Truffle version on your machine globally.

Copy yarn install truffle -g

Create Truffle Project

In this step we will create a simple counter contract. Feel free to skip this step if you already have your own compiled contract.

Create a new directory to host the contracts and initialize it:

Copy mkdir evmos-truffle cd evmos-truffle

Initialize the Truffle suite with:

Copy truffle init

Create contracts/Counter.sol containing the following contract:

Copy pragma solidity >=0.7.0 <0.9.0; contract Counter { uint256 counter = 0; function add() public { counter++; } function subtract() public { counter--; } function getCounter() public view returns (uint256) { return counter; } }

Compile the contract using the compile command:

Copy truffle compile

Create test/counter_test.js containing the following tests in Javascript using Mocha (opens new window):

Copy const Counter = artifacts.require("Counter") contract('Counter', accounts => { const from = accounts[0] let counter before(async() => { counter = await Counter.new() }) it('should add', async() => { await counter.add() let count = await counter.getCounter() assert(count == 1, `count was ${count}`) }) })

Truffle configuration

Open truffle-config.js and uncomment the development section in networks:

Copy development: { host: "127.0.0.1", // Localhost (default: none) port: 8545, // Standard Ethereum port (default: none) network_id: "*", // Any network (default: none) },

This will allow your contract to connect to your Evmos local node.

Deploy contract

In the Truffle terminal, migrate the contract using:

Copy truffle migrate --network development

You should see incoming deployment logs in the Evmos daemon Terminal tab for each transaction (one to deploy Migrations.sol and the other to deploy Counter.sol).

Copy $ I[2020-07-15|17:35:59.934] Added good transaction module=mempool tx=22245B935689918D332F58E82690F02073F0453D54D5944B6D64AAF1F21974E2 res="&{CheckTx:log:\"[]\" gas_wanted:6721975 }" height=3 total=1 I[2020-07-15|17:36:02.065] Executed block module=state height=4 validTxs=1 invalidTxs=0 I[2020-07-15|17:36:02.068] Committed state module=state height=4 txs=1 appHash=76BA85365F10A59FE24ADCA87544191C2D72B9FB5630466C5B71E878F9C0A111 I[2020-07-15|17:36:02.981] Added good transaction module=mempool tx=84516B4588CBB21E6D562A6A295F1F8876076A0CFF2EF1B0EC670AD8D8BB5425 res="&{CheckTx:log:\"[]\" gas_wanted:6721975 }" height=4 total=1

Run Truffle tests

Now, you can run the Truffle tests using the Evmos node using the test command:

Copy $ truffle test --network development Using network 'development'. Compiling your contracts... =========================== > Everything is up to date, there is nothing to compile. Contract: Counter ✓ should add (5036ms) 1 passing (10s)