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Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript

You're reading from   Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript Build your very own Blockchain and decentralized network with JavaScript and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789618822
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eric Traub Eric Traub
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Preface 1. Setting up the Project 2. Building a Blockchain FREE CHAPTER 3. Accessing the Blockchain through an API 4. Creating a Decentralized Blockchain Network 5. Synchronizing the Network 6. Consensus Algorithms 7. Block Explorer 8. In conclusion... 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding the block explorer file

Let's understand how to set up the block explorer frontend. The block explorer will be a user interface with which we can interact with the blockchain from the browser. In order to build this user interface and make it functional, we need to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Now, instead of building all of the frontend by yourself, you can find an entire prebuilt frontend at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Blockchain-Programming-with-JavaScript/blob/master/dev/block-explorer/index.html. We're not building the entire frontend in this section, because that's not the focus of this book.

To build the frontend, all you have to do is copy the file from the link provided and add that to the project's file structure. Now, go to the dev folder and create a new folder inside it, called block-explorer. Inside this...

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