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 # Truffle
 
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 Truffle is a development environment, testing framework and asset pipeline for Ethereum, aiming to make life as an Ethereum developer easier. With Truffle, you get:
 
 * Quick contract compilation and deployment to the Ethereum network on any RPC client, with no extra code.