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Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript

You're reading from  Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789618822
Pages 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Concepts
Author (1):
Eric Traub Eric Traub
Profile icon Eric Traub

Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface 1. Setting up the Project 2. Building a Blockchain 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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