What is Truffle?¶

A world class development environment, testing framework and asset pipeline for blockchains using the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), aiming to make life as a developer easier. With Truffle, you get:

• Built-in smart contract compilation, linking, deployment and binary management.
• Advanced debugging with breakpoints, variable analysis, and step functionality.
• Use console.log in your smart contracts
• Deployments and transactions through MetaMask with Truffle Dashboard to protect your mnemonic.
• External script runner that executes scripts within a Truffle environment.
• Interactive console for direct contract communication.
• Automated contract testing for rapid development.
• Scriptable, extensible deployment & migrations framework.
• Network management for deploying to any number of public & private networks.
• Package management with NPM, using the ERC190 standard.
• Configurable build pipeline with support for tight integration.