Zipcore Node

A Zip 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 Zip Core (zipd) v0.13.0 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/zipevo/zipcore-node
cd zipcore-node
npm install
./bin/zipcore-node start

When running the start command, it will seek for .zipcore/zipcore-node.json conf file in the working directory (see /docs/services/zipd.md for an example). If it doesn't exist, it will create it, with basic task to connect to zipd.

Some plugins are available :

• Insight-API : ./bin/zipcore-node addservice @zipevo/insight-api
• Insight-UI : ./bin/zipcore-node addservice @zipevo/insight-ui

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

-addressindex
-timestampindex
-spentindex

As a library

npm install @zipevo/zipcore-node

const zipcore = require('@zipevo/zipcore-node');
const config = require('./zipcore-node.json');

let node = zipcore.scaffold.start({ path: "", config: config });
node.on('ready', function () {
    console.log("Zip core started");
    
    node.services.zipd.on('tx', function(txData) {
        let tx = new zipcore.lib.Transaction(txData);
        console.log(tx);
    });
});

Prerequisites

• Zip Core (zipd) (v0.13.0) with support for additional indexing (see above)
• Node.js v8+
• ZeroMQ (libzmq3-dev for Ubuntu/Debian or zeromq on OSX)
• ~50GB of disk storage
• ~1GB of RAM

Configuration

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

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

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

Please note that Zip 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:

• Insight API
• Insight UI
• Bitcore Wallet Service

Documentation

• Upgrade Notes
• Services
  • Zipd - Interface to Zip 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 zipd node already runing zipd --daemon.

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

Install them :

cd zipcore-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/zipcore-node start to first generate a ~/.zipcore/zipcore-node.json file. Append this file with "@zipevo/insight-ui" and "@zipevo/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.

Copyright 2016-2018 Zip Core Group, Inc.

• bitcoin: Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Bitcoin Core Developers (MIT License)