Ethereum smart contracts – Setting up development environment (Windows)

This is what you need to start developing Ethereum’s smart contracts, in Windows based machine.

1. 1. Relax the Powershell execution policy. To do this, open up a Powershell console as Administrator:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

1. 1. Assuming that you got Git installed, type:

git config --system http.sslverify false

1. 1. And then, you need to install the needed npm packages (if you don’t have npm or node installed, go here)
      In the console:

npm install -g node-gyp

npm install -g --production windows-build-tools

npm install -g ethereumjs-testrpc

npm install -g truffle

npm install -g truffle-expect truffle-config web3

1. 1. Now that you got all things needed installed, create a folder for your “smart contract” test project, and there execute:

truffle init

1. 1. Finally, open up your brand new environment with Visual Studio Code:

code .