The document explains how to use Remix IDE for Solidity contract development, highlighting features such as automatic compilation, deployment on an in-memory Ethereum network, and an interactive interface for contract interaction. It walks through examples of deploying a contract, setting and retrieving values, and emphasizes that multiple contracts can be deployed from the same artifact. Overall, Remix facilitates a user-friendly environment for coding and managing smart contracts.

1. 4. Contract Practice with Remix
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2. Objective
Remix IDE is a very handy online tool for Solidity. We will
practice the contract compilation and deployment on a
in-memory Ethereum Network. Finally we show how to
interact with the deployed contract.

3. Remix
Remix provides an integrated development environment (IDE) for smart contract
development on Solidity.
It comes with editor, terminal, compiler and and handles deployment various
Ethereum environments. It also provides useful tools for debugging and analysis.
It also comes with a graphic interface to interact with the deployed contract.

4. Tabs Panel for tools including compiler,
execution, analysis and debugger.
Terminal / Log
Solidity Editor

5. The Solidity contract is copied and pasted in the Solidity Editor

6. Compilation
By default, Solidity contract pasted in Solidity Editor is automatically compiled.
Any mistakes in the code are shown immediately in both Solidity Editor and Tabs
Panel (Compile)
The result of compilation, in particular, the Bytecode and ABI, can be found in
Details .

7. Here we can see the errors and warnings of Solidity Contract. Green
means our contract SimpleStorage has no issues.
Contract is automatically compiled.

8. Obtain the compilation detail

9. Bytecode and ABI

10. Deploy Contract
In the Run tag we can deploy contract and execute contract functions from the
compiled contract.
Remix allows interaction with different Ethereum Networks.
● for simplicity, we are using JavaScript VM (an in-memory Ethereum Network)
● JavaScript VM comes with 5 accounts predeposited with 100 ethers each
Remix handles deployment of Bytecode and ABI. We do not need to take care of
this.

11. Select JavaScript VM in Environment

12. Press Create to deploy a contract (no
input is needed per our contract)

13. A contract is deployed in the in-memory Ethereum Network.
Contract Address is 0x692…77b3a.
The variables and/or functions (get and set) defined in the
contract are displayed here and ready for interaction.

14. Interact with the deployed contract:
1. Get the value. The initial value
is 0.
2. Set the value to 100
3. Get the value again. Now the
value is changed to 100.

15. Deploy one more time with
the same artifact.
Newly deployed contract
With the same artifact, we can
deploy more contracts.
Newly deployed contract has a
new Contract Address
(0x0dc…97caf).
These two deployed contracts are
isolated (see different values in
both contracts.)

16. Summary
We have seen how to use Remix to work on contract code in
Solidity. It is automatically compiled and can be deployed.
Remix also provides a friendly interface to interact with the
contract. Finally contracts can be deployed many times from
the same antifact.