Execute a Smart Contract Method
Learn how to execute smart contract methods from a web application.
We'll cover the following...
In the previous lesson, we saw how to read data from a smart contract and use this data to populate our application’s UI. In this lesson, we'll continue improving our frontend and implement a feature that'll allow users to send bids to an Auction smart contract.
Executing a smart contract method
The last feature we'll implement will allow users to send bids to the Auction smart contract. We already have the BidInput component that renders components to input a bid amount and place a bid, so all we need to do is update this component to send an Ethereum transaction that'll execute the placeBid method.
To implement this, we need to add two new properties to the BidInput component ...