This example is based on the wonderful article Learn Blockchains by Building One written by Daniel van Flymen.
Clone the repo then do the following to get a node running:
npm install
node client.js [port]
The port argument is optional. If you do not declare the port, then 3101 is used. If you use
a process manager (like PM2), you can pass on the port & IP via environment variables.
You'll want to get multiple instances of the client running, then you can use your favourite URL request/response software (Postman, cURL, etc) to hit the clients via RESTful calls.
These are the calls you can make:
POST /transactions/new { "sender": "hash", "recipient": "hash", "amount": 50 }
GET /chain
GET /mine
POST /nodes/register { "nodes": ["ip:port"] }
GET /consensus
Once you have instances installed, you should send the POST /nodes/register to each running
node with the list of nodes you are running.