I am very much confused on the relation between these four different stuffs (testrpc, embark simulator, embark run development, inellij idea ) . I have installed these all on Ubuntu . My question is how these are related to each other . There are different documents regarding these stuffs but I didn't found understandable relations on them .
as I get it:
testrpc = it's a blockchain simulator where you can locally interact with your very own instance of etheruem without the need of mining and therefore paying fees (deploying contracts, calling them,...)
embark simulator = is afaik dependent on the testrpc (namely the ethereumjs-testrpc libraries), so all this command does, is starting the testrpc (blockchain simulator)
embark run development = this command will start the embark process:
- connecting to the "development chain rpc" from the blockchain.json settings:
"development": {
"enabled": true,
"networkType": "custom",
"genesisBlock": "config/development/genesis.json",
"datadir": ".embark/development/datadir",
"mineWhenNeeded": true,
"nodiscover": true,
"maxpeers": 0,
"rpcHost": "0.0.0.0",
"rpcPort": 8545,
"rpcCorsDomain": "http://localhost:8000",
"account": {
"password": "config/development/password"
}
deploying contracts and building contract objects (to later refer to them in JS)
preparing files for your webserver - based on embark.json it creates the dist folder
starting a web server according to the webserver.json settings
inellij idea = that would be your IDE settings
Hint: It should be clearer once you go through the embark demo: Embark documentation
