Deployment of a contract into Kovan can be done in 5 steps:

1. creation of a project on Infura (FIXME: This step is currently not used but might be used for whitelisting),

2. creation of an Ethereum address which will own the deployed contract,

3. getting free test ETH for use by the contract on Kovan,

4. compilation of the contract into bytecode and the ABI,

5. deployment of the bytecode (FIXME: using credentials from the Infura project?).

This project automates steps 2, 4 and 5. The other two are explained as well.

• node

• npm

Run npm i to install the Node.js dependencies.

Create an account at Infura. While in the dashboard, click on "Create new project", give the project a name and view it. The credentials are:

• project ID,

• project secret

• Kovan endpoint.

Create a new Ethereum account to own the deployment by running npm run create-account. The account number will be stored in accounts/owner and the associated secret key will be stored in accounts/owner.secret.

Submit the account number from accounts/owner to the Kovan testnet Gitter faucet. Do not send the secret! You should get a confirmation that the account has been sent test ETH.

Compile and deploy the contract by running node run deploy. The deployment script compiles the Solidity contract into the ABI and bytecode internally. If the contract deployment is successful, the contract address is saved to accounts/contract.

Test scripts are found in the test directory. Run them by node run test.