[draft] Quickly build dai apps w/ dapple and MakerUser

Prerequisites

The only mandatory requirement is npm. In order to deploy contracts, you'll need an Ethereum client like geth. If you have a local installation of solc, compiling your contracts will be 5-10x faster.

$ npm -v
3.5.3

$ geth version
Geth
Version: 1.3.3

$ solc --version
solc, the solidity compiler commandline interface
Version: 0.2.0-d21c4276/RelWithDebInfo-Linux/g++/int linked to libethereum-1.1.1-eece77c8/RelWithDebInfo-Linux/g++/int

Install Dapple

First, get dapple via npm:

npm install -g dapple

Create a dapple package

mkdir mydapp && cd mydapp
dapple init

Install makeruser package

dapple install makeruser 0.1.0

Now you have access to the MakerUser mixin contract.

A mixin is a contract with only internal functions - it is not an abstract contract (an interface), but the compiler will only emit anything if you use one of the internal functions in a derived contract.

For now, the best documentation is these example dapps:

FeedBase

Maker OTC