Dashcore Node
A Dash full node for building applications and services with Node.js. A node is extensible and can be configured to run additional services. At the minimum a node has an interface to Dash Core (dashd) v0.12.1.x for more advanced address queries. Additional services can be enabled to make a node more useful such as exposing new APIs, running a block explorer and wallet service.
Usages
As a standalone server
git clone https://github.com/dashevo/dashcore-node
cd dashcore-node
./bin/dashcore-node start
When running the start command, it will seek for a .dashcore folder with a dashcore-node.json conf file. If it doesn't exist, it will create it, with basic task to connect to dashd.
Some plugins are available :
- Insight-API : `./bin/dashcore-node addservice @dashevo/insight-api
- Insight-UI :
./bin/dashcore-node addservice @dashevo/insight-ui
You also might want to add these index to your dash.conf file :
-addressindex
-timestampindex
-spentindex
As a library
npm install @dashevo/dashcore-node
const dashcore = require('@dashevo/dashcore-node');
const config = require('./dashcore-node.json');
let node = dashcore.scaffold.start({ path: "", config: config });
node.on('ready', function() {
//Dash core started
dashd.on('tx', function(txData) {
let tx = new dashcore.lib.Transaction(txData);
});
});
Prerequisites
- Dash Core (dashd) (v0.12.1.x) with support for additional indexing (see above)
- Node.js v0.10, v0.12, v4 or v5
- ZeroMQ (libzmq3-dev for Ubuntu/Debian or zeromq on OSX)
- ~20GB of disk storage
- ~1GB of RAM
Configuration
Dashcore includes a Command Line Interface (CLI) for managing, configuring and interfacing with your Dashcore Node.
dashcore-node create -d <dash-data-dir> mynode
cd mynode
dashcore-node install <service>
dashcore-node install https://github.com/yourname/helloworld
dashcore-node start
This will create a directory with configuration files for your node and install the necessary dependencies.
Please note that Dash Core needs to be installed first.
For more information about (and developing) services, please see the Service Documentation.
Add-on Services
There are several add-on services available to extend the functionality of Bitcore:
Documentation
- Upgrade Notes
- Services
- Development Environment - Guide for setting up a development environment
- Node - Details on the node constructor
- Bus - Overview of the event bus constructor
- Release Process - Information about verifying a release and the release process.
Setting up dev environment (with Insight)
Prerequisite : Having a dashd node already runing dashd --daemon
.
Dashcore-node : git clone https://github.com/dashevo/dashcore-node -b develop
Insight-api (optional) : git clone https://github.com/dashevo/insight-api -b develop
Insight-UI (optional) : git clone https://github.com/dashevo/insight-ui -b develop
Install them :
cd dashcore-node && npm install \
&& cd ../insight-ui && npm install \
&& cd ../insight-api && npm install && cd ..
Symbolic linking in parent folder :
npm link ../insight-api
npm link ../insight-ui
Start with ./bin/dashcore-node start
to first generate a ~/.dashcore/dashcore-node.json file.
Append this file with "@dashevo/insight-ui"
and "@dashevo/insight-api"
in the services array.
Contributing
Please send pull requests for bug fixes, code optimization, and ideas for improvement. For more information on how to contribute, please refer to our CONTRIBUTING file.
License
Code released under the MIT license.
Copyright 2013-2015 BitPay, Inc.
- bitcoin: Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Bitcoin Core Developers (MIT License)