Build Web3 apps with React

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The workshop is designed to help Web2 developers start building for Web3 using the Hyperverse. The Hyperverse is an open marketplace of community-built, audited, easy to discover smart modules. Our goal - to make it easy for React developers to build Web3 apps without writing a single line of smart contract code. Think “npm for smart contracts.”


Learn more about the Hyperverse here.


We will go over all the blockchain/crypto basics you need to know to start building on the Hyperverse, so you do not need to have any previous knowledge about the Web3 space. You just need to have React experience.

FAQ

The Hyperverse is a community-built, open, and audited platform offering modular smart contracts for major blockchains. It allows Web2 developers to build Web3 apps using JavaScript without needing to write smart contract code, by providing access to pre-built smart modules.

No, you do not need to learn a new programming language to develop on Hyperverse. Web2 developers can build Web3 applications using JavaScript, leveraging the platform's libraries and smart modules.

Smart modules in Hyperverse are single-purpose, on-chain smart contracts that developers can use to add specific functionalities to their applications. These modules are validated and audited by the community to ensure security and reliability.

In the Hyperverse model, transactions involve broadcasting a request to a network of nodes that validate and verify the transaction. Once verified, the transaction is added to a block on the blockchain, where it becomes immutable.

Yes, similar to using APIs like Stripe or Twilio in Web2, developers can use smart modules in Hyperverse to integrate payment systems or notifications into their Web3 apps with just a few lines of JavaScript code.

To set up a development environment for Hyperverse, developers need Visual Studio Code or another IDE, Node.js, and Yarn. They can start from scratch or use the Hyperverse Monorepo, which includes example dApps and packages.

Auditors and registrars in the Hyperverse ecosystem review the code of smart modules to ensure they are secure and function as intended. Auditors can stake tokens as an indication of their confidence in the module's security, acting as an insurance layer.

Blockchain fees, also known as 'gas', are determined dynamically based on the network activity at the time of the transaction. Transactions with higher gas fees are likely to be processed faster than those with lower fees.

Shain Dholakiya
Shain Dholakiya
51 min
01 Jul, 2022

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Today's Workshop focused on building Web3 apps with React using JavaScript, without the need for smart contract code. The Hyperverse was introduced as a community-built, open, and audited platform for modular smart contracts. The Workshop covered topics such as blockchain basics, digital signatures, wallets, fees, and token types. A demo of a Web3 application was showcased, along with the process of confirming transactions and starting a battle between tribes. The Workshop also discussed initializing Hyperverse and modules, connecting wallets, joining and leaving tribes, creating custom tribes, and implementing battle functionality and ERC-721 tokens.

1. Introduction to Web3 App Development

Short description:

Hi everyone. My name is Shane. Today we're gonna be talking about how you can build Web3 apps with React using JavaScript, so no smart contract code needed at all. Our mission is to onboard 10 million devs from Web2 to Web3. The Hyperverse accelerates and simplifies your blockchain development journey. The Hyperverse is a community-built, open, and audited, modular, smart contracts for all major blockchains.

Hi everyone. My name is Shane. I'm the developer advocate at Decentology. My Twitter handle, everything's down there. And today we're gonna be talking about how you can build Web3 apps with React using JavaScript, so no smart contract code needed at all. No need to pick up another programming language. So let's get into it.

So our company, obviously we love developers. That's why we are here, and we make products that make your lives easier. Our mission, as I was pointing to earlier, is that we want to onboard 10 million devs from Web2 to Web3. So you're in the perfect place if you are new to Web3. And then our product, the Hyperverse, which I'll be explaining even further and using, basically accelerates and simplifies your blockchain development journey. So you'll see exactly how throughout this workshop.

So the agenda for today, I'm going to be first sharing the Hyperverse overview. So just a how Hyperverse works. And then go into some blockchain and crypto basics. And then I'll show you a demo of two modules of Web3 applications using the Hyperverse. So let's get right into it. So what is the Hyperverse? The Hyperverse is a community-built, open, and audited, modular, smart contracts for all major blockchains. So that's a whole mouthful, but I'll break it down. Right now in the Web3 world, obviously if someone wants to build an application, there has to be a smart contract aspect, and then the front-end aspect. The smart contract aspect is a totally different ballgame than what we have in Web2 world. You have to think of so many other use cases and edge cases since that code is immutable once it's on chain. So that's a whole lot different than the Web2 world. And then as well as picking up a whole new programming language. So once those two aspects are combined, then you have a Web3 application. But what we are trying to do is make it super simple for Web2 devs to build apps without writing a single line of smart contract code and using just JavaScript. So you can tap into other smart contracts using just JavaScript and call these functions all with JavaScript and create your Web3 application that way. Instead of creating a smart contract from scratch. So here's an overview of the Hyperverse and how the architecture kind of works.

2. Building Smart Modules for Web 3.0

Short description:

Any smart contract developer can build smart modules, which are single-purpose smart contracts. Registrars validate these modules, and auditors verify the code. Web 2.0 developers can use JavaScript and libraries to tap into these modules, similar to using APIs. No smart contract code knowledge is needed.

So first, you know, any smart contract developer could go on and build these, what we call smart modules, which are essentially just single purpose, you know, on chain smart contracts, and then we have a community of registrars that will go in and validate these smart module packages. And these smart module packages consist of, you know, things like metadata, examples of, you know, how the functionality works and all that. And then we have a community of auditors that would actually go ahead and read the code of the smart contract that was built in the smart module and stake their tokens as an indication that, you know, this code is been verified and, you know, there's no scammy stuff or anything like that going on in here. So it acts like an insurance layer for the smart modules.

So now for Web 2.0 developers, all they have to do would be use JavaScript and use our libraries to tap into the smart modules and use them how they wish. And, you know, if this sounds familiar, this sort of concept sounds familiar to you, it's because it is, right. In Web 2.0 world, if you want to build a payment layer, you wouldn't build it from from scratch, right? You would just call Stripes API. If you want, you know, notifications, you would just call Twilio. And few lines of code, you have an app up and running with both those functionalities. So it's very similar of what we are building here. You're just connecting these, you know, Lego blocks of, I want this functionality from this smart module, this functionality from this smart module. And you can connect them literally just like NPM for smart contracts, and then use those functionalities wherever you want throughout your Web 3.0 application. So it really is that easy. So here is a diagram of just showcasing how, basically in the Web 3.0 world, you don't really need to have, you know, smart contract programming language knowledge. You could just write the client side applications using just, you know, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and use, you know, React or whatever you want and tap into these smart contracts that were built by, you know, obviously the smart contract developers that were written in various different languages depending on, you know, which blockchain they're on. And you can just tap into these and then call those functionalities how you wish throughout your Web 3.0 application. So again, no smart contract code knowledge needed at all.

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