Connect React to Ethereum
How to connect your Ethereum smart contract with your React User Interface locally for decentralized app development
Following the financial crises of 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto proposed and developed a software that was to become new digital money—Bitcoin. With Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced to the world a central bank of the internet, a cryptographic currency, one not possible before due to the double-spending problem, which Bitcoin solved. This double-spending problem was solved by creating a new type of database known as a blockchain.
Five years later, Vitalik proposed extending the Bitcoin blockchain for use in more than just money.
I first wrote the initial draft of the Ethereum whitepaper on a cold day in San Francisco in November, as a culmination of months of thought and often frustrating work into an area that we have come to call “cryptocurrency 2.0″
— Vitalik Buterin
The vision of Ethereum was to create a platform that would become the next generation of the internet, Web 3.0. This new generation would allow users to explore both the traditional web and the…