Rsk explorer api

Description

Rsk blockchain explorer

Components

API server

HTTP/WS server, see the documentation here.

Blocks services

Imports blockchain data from rsk node to DB.

blocksRouter: routes messages between services REQUIRED
blocksListener: listens to new blocks from node and announces them as service event.
blocksRequester: requests blocks from node.
blocksChecker: checks database for missing blocks and reorgs, emits missing/bad blocks.
txPool: listens to node transactions pool and stores changes in the DB.
blocksBalances: gets historical addresses balances and stores in the DB.
blocksStatus: checks DB and node status and stores changes in the DB.
blocksStats: gets BC stats and stores in the DB.

API user events service

Allows to update fields on the fly and send async response to clients. Required by the contract verification module.

Requisites

mongodb > 4
node >= 12.18.2
access to JSON/RPC interface of a rskj node >= 2.0.1 with this modules enabled: eth, net, web3, txpool, debug and trace.

Install

Install dependencies

    npm install

Create log dir

sudo mkdir /var/log/rsk-explorer
sudo chown $USER /var/log/rsk-explorer/
chmod 755 /var/log/rsk-explorer

Note: You can change the log folder in config.json

Configuration file

(optional)

    cp config-example.json config.json

see configuration

Start

Services

Services can be started manually one by one, but we recommend to use PM2. This repo includes a pm2 ecosystem file that starts all services automatically.

Install PM2

  npm install -g pm2

To enable pm2 log rotation

  pm2 install pm2-logrotate

see pm2-logrotate see pm2-logrotate configuration to set the rotation options

e.g:

pm2 set pm2-logrotate:compress true

Start services

pm2 start dist/services/blocks.config.js

API

  pm2 start dist/api/api.config.js

Show PM2 logs in pretty format

All tasks

:~/rsk-explorer-api$ pm2 log --raw | npx bunyan

One task

:~/rsk-explorer-api$ pm2 log blocksListener --raw | npx bunyan

Commands

Run api in development mode

    npm run dev

Run blocks service in development mode

    npm run blocks

Production build to ./dist folder

    npm run build

Configuration

config.json See defaults on: lib/defaultConfig (config.json overrides this values)

Use:

node dist/tools/showConfig.js

to check current configuration

Configuration Example:

  "source": {
    "node": "localhost",
    "port": 4444
  },
  "api": {
    "address": "localhost",
    "port": 3003
  },
  "db": {
    "server": "localhost",
    "port": 27017,
    "database": "blockDB"
  }

The contractVerifier module requires a connection to a rsk-contract-verifier instance. The url must be provided on api section:

"api":{
  "contractVerifier": {
      "url": "ws://localhost:3008"
    }
}

Source

Address of rskj node or array of addresses of rskj nodes

e.g.:

{
  "url":"http://localhost:4444"
}