@geekcash/geekcash-node

v1.0.1

Published

3 years ago

Full node with extended capabilities using geekcash and GeekCash Core (geekcashd)

Downloads

0High
0Medium
0Low

GeekCash Node

A GeekCash full node for building applications and services with Node.js. A node is extensible and can be configured to run additional services. At the minimum a node has an interface to GeekCash Core (geekcashd) v1.0.x for more advanced address queries. Additional services can be enabled to make a node more useful such as exposing new APIs, running a block explorer and wallet service.

Usages

As a standalone server

git clone https://github.com/geekcash/geekcash-node
cd geekcash-node
./bin/geekcash-node start

When running the start command, it will seek for a .geekcashcore folder with a geekcash-node.json conf file. If it doesn't exist, it will create it, with basic task to connect to dashd.

Some plugins are available :

Insight-API : `./bin/geekcash-node addservice @geekcash/insight-api
Insight-UI : ./bin/geekcash-node addservice @geekcash/insight-ui

You also might want to add these index to your dash.conf file :

-addressindex
-timestampindex
-spentindex

As a library

npm install @geekcash/geekcash-node

const dashcore = require('@geekcash/geekcash-node');
const config = require('./geekcash-node.json');

let node = dashcore.scaffold.start({ path: "", config: config });
node.on('ready', function() {
    //GeekCash core started
    dashd.on('tx', function(txData) {
        let tx = new dashcore.lib.Transaction(txData);
    });
});

Prerequisites

GeekCash Core (dashd) (v0.12.1.x) with support for additional indexing (see above)
Node.js v0.10, v0.12, v4 or v5
ZeroMQ (libzmq3-dev for Ubuntu/Debian or zeromq on OSX)
~20GB of disk storage
~1GB of RAM

Configuration

GeekCash includes a Command Line Interface (CLI) for managing, configuring and interfacing with your GeekCash Node.

geekcash-node create -d <dash-data-dir> mynode
cd mynode
geekcash-node install <service>
geekcash-node install https://github.com/yourname/helloworld
geekcash-node start

This will create a directory with configuration files for your node and install the necessary dependencies.

Please note that GeekCash Core needs to be installed first.

For more information about (and developing) services, please see the Service Documentation.

Add-on Services

There are several add-on services available to extend the functionality of Bitcore:

Documentation

Upgrade Notes
Services
- GeekCashd - Interface to GeekCash Core
- Web - Creates an express application over which services can expose their web/API content
Development Environment - Guide for setting up a development environment
Node - Details on the node constructor
Bus - Overview of the event bus constructor
Release Process - Information about verifying a release and the release process.

Setting up dev environment (with Insight)

Prerequisite : Having a dashd node already runing dashd --daemon.

GeekCash-node : git clone https://github.com/geekcash/geekcash-node -b develop Insight-api (optional) : git clone https://github.com/geekcash/insight-api -b develop Insight-UI (optional) : git clone https://github.com/geekcash/insight-ui -b develop

Install them :

cd geekcash-node && npm install \
 && cd ../insight-ui && npm install \
 && cd ../insight-api && npm install && cd ..

Symbolic linking in parent folder :

npm link ../insight-api
npm link ../insight-ui

Start with ./bin/geekcash-node start to first generate a ~/.geekcashcore/geekcash-node.json file. Append this file with "@geekcash/insight-ui" and "@geekcash/insight-api" in the services array.

Contributing

Please send pull requests for bug fixes, code optimization, and ideas for improvement. For more information on how to contribute, please refer to our CONTRIBUTING file.

License

Code released under the MIT license.