[Ethereum] the best way to get the JSON ABI after deploying a contract with Truffle to Ganache or Kovan

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Remix makes it so easy to get the JSON ABI.

Does anyone have any recommendation on how best to get the JSON ABI after successfully deploying a contract using Truffle without having to leverage Remix?

Best Answer

when you run

$ truffle compile

truffle creates and saves a json file per contract in /yourProjectPath/build/contracts. In this json file you'll find the abi, the bytecode, the topics (if you have any event in your smart contract), the function definitions etc (you get the point I guess, I encourage you to spend some time understanding that file - just to get a broad understanding).

personally I use python for my projects. Here is how I automatically load my abi into my scripts for transacting with my contracts (using web3py)

import json

PATH_TRUFFLE_WK = '/home/myUserName/Projects/myEthereumProjet/'
truffleFile = json.load(open(PATH_TRUFFLE_WK + '/build/contracts/myContractName.json'))

abi = truffleFile['abi']
bytecode = truffleFile['bytecode']

You can do the same with your favorite programming language or simply copying-pasting your abi by hand.

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