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RE: An EOS.IO Developer's Notes - How To Publish A Contract to the EOS Public Testnet
Stupid newbie questions, are you running this on a local machine that you have or a cloud server? If it is a local machine what is your configuration? Is there a minimum connection speed required? I have a plain DSL account that currently is currently not so great on the upload side. Will that be a problem just getting something started and allow my continued learning?
Thanks for the help.
but I hope it helps someone out there (just one person would make me happy!)
I'm one so you can be HAPPY!
SDG
Thanks for the support, SDG! It feels amazing to lend a hand to this community.
Here's my feedback:
In order to interact with the public testnet, you need to start running a local node using the ./eosd (or ./eosiod) command. I think about this like opening a communication portal between you and the blockchain. Once ./eosd is running, you can start sending actions to the eosio blockchain using the ./eosc (or ./eosioc) command which allows you to publish contracts, execute a contract, etc.
Try getting just the .eosd and .eosc working and see if you can connect ( or 'ping') the testnet blockchain using the following command:
Once you can do that simple test case, you just confirmed that you can send commands and retrieve data from the eosio blockchain (and you know that your connection speed can handle the basic use case of running a node.) From there, try to publish a simple example dapp and grow your application from there.
-Gunnar