Smart contract development

[PaulRBerg]

In its early days, I was somewhat adamant to keep Create Eth App a frontend-only development tool. However, with time, interesting use cases for smart contract development came to mind: flash loans, buidler setups, etc.

I'm still not convinced that it is worth it, particularly given the complexity it would bring, but I decided to open the GitHub issue to entertain the idea further.

[PaulRBerg]

Received a request for this:

Any thoughts on using @ethPM1 as a way to simplify the creation of new templates?

[samajammin]

I've used create-eth-app in tandem with buidler. e.g. here's an old demo dapp of a buidler project on the top level of the repo, with a create-eth-app project within the /frontend/ directory.

My 2 Gwei: I think it would be a nice addition to provide a flag option when creating a new project.

[PaulRBerg]

Thanks for your feedback, @samajammin! This helps a lot with deciding what are the best features to implement next.

In the interim, @austintgriffith made huge progress with scaffold-eth; a tool that generalises what your honeypot app does by assembling buidler and create-eth-app together.