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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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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

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

Building the API foundation

We are going to continue building our blockchain API in this section, and then we're going to build the following three endpoints in our API to start with:

  • The first endpoint is /blockchain, which allows us to fetch our entire blockchain so that we can look at the data that's inside of it.
  • The second endpoint is /transaction, which allows us to create a new transaction.
  • The third endpoint is /mine, which will allow us to mine a new block by using the proofOfWork method that we made in the last chapter. This is going to be a pretty powerful endpoint, and it will be fun to build.

This is basically going to be the foundation of our blockchain API. In the dev/networkNode.js file, let's define these endpoints as follows:

const express = require('express');
const app = express();

app.get('/blockchain', function (req, res...
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