A Complete Mental Model for Ethereum dApp Development

Blockchain Application Development for Web Developers

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Introduction

The prevailing architecture of most web applications is client-server-database. We utilize clients such as laptops, smartphones, and tablets to make requests from and submit requests to backend servers, which in turn communicate with databases to persist and retrieve data. The relationship between client and server/database is many-to-one, where control is centralized at the latter. If Web 1.0 is about static web pages, Web 2.0 is about interactivity and JavaScript.

web stack: Clients => Servers => Databases

Where we want to go is Web 3.0, where servers and databases are as decentralized as the clients. In other words, clients can also act as servers or databases or both (aka, peer-to-peer). With…