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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

Blockchain constructor function

Let's get started with building our blockchain data structure. We'll start by opening all of the files that we have in our blockchain directory by using the Sublime editor. If you are comfortable using any other editor, you can use that too. Open our entire blockchain directory in whichever editor you prefer.

We'll be building our entire blockchain data structure in the dev/blockchain.js file that we created in Chapter 1, Setting up the Project. Let's build this blockchain data structure by using a constructor function that we learned about in the previous section. So, let's begin:

For the constructor by type the following:

function Blockchain () {
}

For now, the Blockchain () function is not going to take any parameters.

Next, inside of our constructor function, we are going to add the following terms:

function Blockchain...
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Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript
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Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789618822
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