openblockchain: Frontend

Frontend is one of the microservices which comprise the openblockchain application.

Architecture

The project is managed through the openblockchain

The project is split into several services:

• Cassandra persists the data: blocks, transactions, and visualisations (analysed data).
• Bitcoin is used to connect to the Bitcoin blockchain. It's a simple Bitcoin Core node whose role is to index all the blocks and transactions and make them consumable through a HTTP JSON RPC interface.
• Scanner connects to the bitcoin service through its APIs and stores all the blocks and transactions in the Cassandra database.
• Spark analyses the Bitcoin blockchain data stored in Cassandra.
• API is a REST interface that allows clients to consume the data stored in Cassandra.
• Frontend is the web app used to explore the blockchain and visualise analysed data.

Each service contains 1 or more containers and can be scaled independently from each other.

Installation

npm install

Running Dev Server

npm run dev

The first time it may take a little while to generate the first webpack-assets.json and complain with a few dozen [webpack-isomorphic-tools] (waiting for the first Webpack build to finish) printouts, but be patient. Give it 30 seconds.

Using Redux DevTools

Redux Devtools are enabled by default in development.

• CTRL+H Toggle DevTools Dock
• CTRL+Q Move DevTools Dock Position
• see redux-devtools-dock-monitor for more detailed information.

If you have the Redux DevTools chrome extension installed it will automatically be used on the client-side instead.

If you want to disable the dev tools during development, set __DEVTOOLS__ to false in /webpack/dev.config.js. DevTools are not enabled during production.

Building and Running Production Server

npm run build
npm run start

License

Copyright (C) 2016 Dan Hassan

Designed, developed and maintained by Dan Hassan daniel.san@dyne.org

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Dependencies

Frontend Service dependencies https://github.com/gaearon/react-redux-universal-hot-example The MIT License (MIT), Copyright (c) 2015 Erik Rasmussen