BCOIN BOILERPLATE

Overview

This repo is to help you get up and running with a bcoin project on node

Includes

• Option for React front end build
• Option for jQuery front end build
• Front end forms have functionality available for most wallet database interactions:
  • creating new wallets
  • generating addresses
  • getting wallet information
  • adding data to blockchain via OP_RETURN
• Nodejs router to send client side requests to a bcoin node endpoint
• Bcoin Node with two configs available: one for testnet full node and one for testnet spv node

Architecture

1. The client offers several forms to access useful features of the bcoin node REST API.
2. These forms make AJAX requests to a NodeJS/Express server (default runs on port 5000). Non-bcoin requests can be handled as normal on this server (e.g. static assets)
3. Any request from the client that starts with /node is routed to a bcoin server (default runs on port 18332)

Setup

• Clone repository to local
• Navigate to project directory
• run npm install

Default Front End (w/ jQuery)

(This builds from the client/src directory, with client/src/index.js as its entry point)

• run npm run watch to build js and output to dist/build.js. Will watch for updates to js in react-src directory
• run npm run build for prod build (no verbose or source maps or watch)

-- OR --

React Front End

(This builds from the client/react-src directory, with client/react-src/index.js as its entry point)

• run npm run watch:react to build js and output to dist/build.js. Will watch for updates to js in src directory
• run npm run build:react for prod build (no verbose or source maps or watch)

Styling

By default, stylings are just in client/dist/build.css which is requested in the empty index.html file. You can add your own build process for SASS, LESS, modularized css, uglification, etc. but there are none by default

Steps to Run Servers

• navigate to project directory
• run npm run start-server
• in another session run either npm run start-bcoin for a testnet full node or npm run start-spv for SPV node
• send bcoin requests to http://localhost:5000/node/
• client is served from http://localhost:5000

default config file is setup in ./bcoin-config.js. This can be customized with your own options or you can specify your own config with the npm config param --config. e.g. npm --config=./custom-config.js run start-bcoin

Nodejs server runs on port 5000 by default and acts as a router sending any requests to /node/ to the bcoin node (which runs on port 8080)

Gotchas and Troubleshooting

• when in doubt rm -rf node_modules && npm i. There are some tricky dependencies that sometimes get missed, so deleting your node modules will usually help fix this.
• bcoin is still in active development so we've stabilized on the most recent version where this repo was known to work (currently 1.0.0-beta.11)
• Check that the NodeJS server/router is using the correct port for bcoin requests

Notes

• uses eslint with airbnb configs. These are quite strict but make the code nice and consistent, enforcing ES6 notation where possible. This can be changed via the .eslintrc.json config file.
• There are two servers that need to be run- one is the bcoin node (which is set at a default :18332 port) and the other is a regular node server with router that runs on port :5000. The node server routes requests to the /node endpoint to the bcoin node