GAME Explorer Backend

Blockchain exporter for the CosmosSDK based Blockchain(ex gaia). This backend server can be applied to any cosmosSDK based blockchain to sync as mongoDB collections.

Prerequisites

• go1.17.0+
• mongoDB 4.4.0+
• docker (for local usage)

Get Started

• set up mongoDB

• build source

Just run exporter binary after building source.

git clone https://github.com/cosmos-gaminghub/explorer-backend.git
cd explorer-backend
cp .env.example .env
make all
./build/exporter
./build/cron

or apply service to mangae exporter process.

Use Service

### exporter service
tee /etc/systemd/system/explorer-backend.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=exploder-backend

[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
Group=root

WorkingDirectory=/root/explorer-backend
ExecStart=/root/explorer-backend/build/exporter

Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable explorer-backend
systemctl start explorer-backend

### cron service
tee /etc/systemd/system/explorer-cron.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=exploder-cron

[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
Group=root

WorkingDirectory=/root/explorer-backend
ExecStart=/root/explorer-backend/build/cron

Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable explorer-cron
systemctl start explorer-cron

Start in local

docker run -p 27017:27017 --name dev-mongo mongo
./build/exporter

Setting environment variables

System Architechture

In the backend, exporter binary watches cosmosSDK based chain node(especially blocks and proposals) and insert synced data into mongoDB. Also cron binary updates coingecko price data every 20min.

ref:

• explorer-graphql responses API data to the frontend.
• explorer-fronted consists of nuxt.js framework.