Build Your First Web3 App Using Only APIs

Are you ready to take the plunge into the world of web3 and blockchain technology, but feeling intimidated by the learning curve? DropChain's API is here to help. Our API massively simplifies the experience of building web3 applications and smart contracts, allowing anyone to easily integrate web3 functionality into their projects. In this blog post, we'll give you an overview of all that our API has to offer and how it can make your journey into the world of web 3 a lot smoother.

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Building your first web 3.0 product can be a daunting task. Even if you're an experienced web 2.0 developer, building on the blockchain poses a wide range of unique challenges.

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DropChain API is Here to Help

The DropChain API massively simplifies the experience of building web3 applications.

Learning to build web3 applications and smart contracts is extremely challenging. If you wanted to learn how to build an Ethereum web3 app from scratch, you need to:

- Learn Solidity

- Setup and learn to use Truffle to test

- Setup a node or connect to one through Infura

- Build a frontend user interface- Learn and integrate Web3.js

- Integrate Metamask

- Deploy your web app and test

Plus, everything above assumes you're already familiar with basic programming. If you aren't, another 2-3 months of learning is required before you can start with basic web3 tutorials. The DropChain API allows end users to build web3 applications by building a frontend interface that can send POST requests.

Web2 Interoperability

Because the DropChain API is built like a conventional web2 API, any web2 tool can use it to unlock web3 functionality.

This means that web2 developers who know how to build web2 applications can build a web3 app using the DropChain API with their favorite programming language. It also means that existing no-code web2 tools, like Wix's website builder, Bubble.io's no-code web app builder, or Zapier's no-code automation tools can integrate web3 functionality seamlessly.​

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Smart Contract LEGOs

The DropChain API provides developers templated transaction types and smart contracts to utilize on demand. These smart contracts are community-sourced to create a library marketplace of web3 smart contracts that web2 developers can utilize.

These API calls interact with smart contracts on DropChain Network, which ensures blockchain settlement and enforces the web3 nature of the application.

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Intuitive Experience

Blockchain technology can be confusing for early web3 developers. In order to decrease the learning curve for builders entering the space, some small developer experience improvements were created to simplify the experience.

For example, each digital asset has a simple numeric identifier asset_id. Users are referenced using their User ID in order to sign transactions.

Additionally, node infrastructure, wallet handling, and other challenges are abstracted away from the development experience as DropChain handles much of the infrastructure-level requirements to get started out of the box.