This package is for ethereum dapp development

What does this package:

Exports a global class named GethConnector available only on server
Downloads geth binaries
Can start geth process
Can connect to an ipc geth process and send json-rpc call

Example

On server side create a global variable just before Meteor.startup:

 // for global access on server side
 gethObj = false;

 const testGeth = function () {
   // start geth process
   let started = gethObj.start();
   // waits for process to start (Future fiber)
   if (started) {
     // test ipc calls https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Go-ethereum-management-API's
     gethObj.ipcCall('personal_listAccounts', [], (err, data)=> {
       console.log('account list ' + data);
     });
   }
 };

 Meteor.startup(function () {
   gethObj = new GethConnector();
   gethObj.setLogLevel('warn'); // info is default
   testGeth();
 });

Then you can use anywhere on server side these methods:

gethObj.start(); //start geth process, you can find logs in .meteor/local/log/gethProcess.log

there are some params you can send when starting geth, these are the default ones:

gethObj.start(dataDir, testNet = true, extraOptions = ['--shh', '--rpc', '--rpccorsdomain', 'localhost'])

gethObj.stop();//stop geth process

gethObj.setLogLevel('info');//info is default; 'trace', 'fine', 'debug', 'info', 'warn', 'error'

gethObj.ipcCall(name, params, callback));//send json-rpc request, you can find all available methods here https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JSON-RPC#json-rpc-methods

Test this package:

VELOCITY_TEST_PACKAGES=1 meteor test-packages --driver-package velocity:console-reporter akasha:meteor-geth

kenshyx/meteor-geth

This package is for ethereum dapp development

What does this package:

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