Difference between Openzeppelin SDK and Truffle?

Question

For smart contract development, what is the difference between Openzeppelin SDK and Truffle? When should I use one or another, or both together?

Soileau

Answer 1

OpenZeppelin Contracts: library of SmartContracts, that can be inherited and used to develop upon;

OpenZeppelin SDK: is former ZeppelinOS, it is SDK to help development process;

Truffle SDK: is well-known SDK to help development process as well. Besides SDK Truffle has other great projects as Ganache.

Spend some time to read documentation - it is very clear documented.

PS: ZeppelinOS was first SDK, that allowed to develop Upgradable Smart Contracts - really cool (https://medium.com/coinmonks/how-to-create-an-upgradeable-smart-contract-using-openzeppelin-sdk-example-of-fixing-smart-260dfbfd5bae)

Horology

Answer 2

Keeping things simple:

Truffle is a setup tool you can use to develop smart contracts, but doesn't touch Solidity code at all. It is like Cargo to Rust or npm/yarn to NodeJS.

OpenZeppelin is a well-tested set of libraries written in Solidity that you can import to your smart contracts while code is potentially being generated, maintained and deployed by truffle.

Rive

The question is about OpenZeppein SDK, not OpenZeppelin Contracts – Horology

Answer 3

OpenZepplin SDK and Truffle

OpenZepplin

is a library which consist of well documented smart contracts which you can use in your projects. You can import Openzepplin library in your solidity project in order to use it. The most obvious use of this library is for the ERC720 and ERC721 implementation.Their upgradeability concept is also one of the best.

Truffle:

is a development framework which you can use for your solidity project. It can help you to test your developed solidity contracts by compiling and migrating it on local test network. You can interact with the deployed contracts thereafter either manually by using truffle console or by running unit test which are written in Javascript with Mocha and chai.

While building any solidity project where you are required to develop smart contracts which can use ERC token implementation or any other implementation than Openzepplin is one of the selected choice. After your development in order to check the functionality and working of the smart contracts you developed Truffle is used.

Tasiatasiana

"is a library which consist" - this refers to OpenZeppelin Contracts, but question is regarding to the OpenZeppelin SDK. Your answer is misleading :) – Horology