CryptoLib

CryptoLib is a Blockchain hosted online library. The mission of CryptoLib is to have any book, available to anyone, at anytime, anywhere.

Create a Metamask Account

This project is a Decentralized App which means it needs to connect to the Ethereum Blockchain. We do that through Metamask.

1. Install the Metamask browser plugin. This is necessary to allow your browser to connect to the ethereum blockchain.
2. Change the network that Metamask is connected to from 'Main Ethereum Network' to 'Rinkeby Test Network'. You can get some test Ethereum from the sink. Copy your account address from Metamask(This is a hex string staring with 'Ox') and make a post on either Facebook or Twitter containing your address, and copy the url for that post into the Rinkeby Authenticated Faucet. The Ether should appear in your acount after half a minute.
3. When you start the development server and open the webpage, metamask will ask you to login in order to connect to the site.
4. You are now setup for development!

Development Setup

You will need git to clone this repo.

You need NodeJS + npm. Run npm install and npm run client-install to install all the dependencies for this project.

smart contract development

If you're making changes to the smart contracts found under the /SmartContracts/contracts folder, you will need to install the Truffle suite with npm install truffle -g.

If you're on windows, you might need to rename truffle-config.js to truffle.js

To test your changes, run the Ganache CLI, and run truffle compile to update the contract .json in the build folder, run truffle migrate to update the changed on the Ganache CLI, and finally run truffle test to run the mocha.js tests found under SmartContracts/LibraryTest.js