Keaneyjo/bsn

Blockchain-based Social Network

For the frontend implementation:

In the project directory bsn/ run:

npm install

Then again in directory bsn/bsn/ run:

npm install

Then to open the app run in bsn/bsn:

npm install

In order for the application to work, a Ganache GUI instance at RPC Server HTTP://127.0.0.1:7545 must be running In order for communities or posts to be created a shard instance must be run on a free port via Ganache CLI

More info on running Ganache CLI shards is available here Or by searching the commands in the analytical folder.

For the analytical implementation

Enter directory analytical/

In order for the application to work, a Ganache GUI instance at RPC Server HTTP://127.0.0.1:7545 must be running In order for communities or posts to be created a shard instance must be run on a free port via Ganache CLI

More info on running Ganache CLI shards is available here Or by searching the commands in the analytical folder.

If shards have not been generated: Configure wallet public and private key pair based on Ganache CLI Configure IPFS key via infura

Then after installing requirements run:

python main.py

Then to generate graphs run:

python generate_graphs.py