========= FOREWORD: Important Solidity compiler version note (MUST READ!!) =========

Currently the latest version of Solidity is 0.6.0. This repo provides up-to-date Solidity (and other) code for the benefit of the students enrolling in the udemy.com course Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer's Guide and to this end it achieves that goal, that is, all of the updated Solidity code in this repo is fully compatible with version 0.5.0 and higher of Solidity. However if you want to deploy these smart contracts to the Rinkeby Test Network and then work with them without issues, you will need to use ABI and Bytecodes generated by a Solidity compiler version no later than 0.5.15, the last relesed version prior to 0.6.0.

I learned this the hard way as I was compiling using the 0.6.0 compiler when I started this repo only to realise that although I had no issue working with the contracts after deploying them to Ganache CLI's local test blockchain, this was not the case after deploying the same compiled bytecodes to Rinkeby, specifically all method calls to the contracts were only returning empty results.

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Up-to-date Solidity/web3.js/React code for the udemy.com course Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer's Guide.

Note: This is a work-in-progress as I have enrolled in but have not yet completed the abovementioned course.

Earlier this year I became very interested in entering the blockchain development space and so I embarked on a journey to learn as much as I can, as quickly as I can, within this ever-evolving tech space we refer to as Blockchain, and to be more specific, the Ethereum ecosystem. Of course, I quickly realised that the development tools and packages being used to build, develop and deploy dApps and tech within this ecosystem all share a common trend: rapid change and evolution, often introducing breaking changes through iterations of their releases.

I make heavy use of the online learning website udemy.com and find it to be a great supplementary learning tool. So naturally I bought a few courses on Ethereum and Solidity. The problem is, each of these courses target outdated versions of Solidity, web3.js and Truffle in their course lessons and code examples. In the course creators' defense, remember, this is rapidly evolving tech we're dealing with here and the respective effort required to keep their video course content up-to-date with current software releases can be rather challenging.

And so, that's where I decided to lend a bit of a helping hand.

I figured that if I wanted the online courses I enrolled in to provide up-to-date code then other developers also had to want this. So, I decided to take action and just write the updated code myself, starting with the Udemy course Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer's Guide, the one I am finding most enjoyable and acceptable so far.

This repository is being setup as a monorepo, so as to keep the updated versions of the isolated bits of the course's code and tests well organized all within a single repository.

The smart contracts created in the course are:

• The Inbox Contract
• The Lottery Contract

The course sections that cover building out a front-end application using React make use of the previous approach of installing create-react-app globally via npm install -g create-react-app. This is no longer the recommended approach. As such if you have already used this command and installed create-react-app globally then you should uninstall the package using npm uninstall -g create-react-app. To create a new React app you may now use one of the following methods to ensure that you always use the latest React version:

• npx: npx create-react-app my-app
• npm: npm init react-app my-app
• Yarn: yarn create react-app my-app

For more details on the above methods, see https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app.

To create the lottery-react app I chose to use the yarn command option, as follows:

yarn create react-app lottery-react

• Browse the lottery-react App code files
• lottery-react App README

I would like to give credit to Stephen Grider for creating the excellent course for which I created this repository as my own personal add-on. If any mistakes or errors are found within any of this repository's content they should be attributed to an oversight on my part, and in no part should be deemed any fault of the Udemy course author, Stephen Grider.