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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
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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

Creating multiple nodes

Let's begin by building the decentralized network:

  1. The first thing that we'll have to do to create our decentralized blockchain network is make some modifications to our api.js file.
  2. In our decentralized network, we're going to have multiple instances of our API, and each one of them will act as a network node. Since we'll be dealing with multiple network nodes, it will be better to rename our api.js file to networkNode.js for easy reference.
  3. To set up the decentralized network, we'll have to run the networkNode.js file multiple times. Each time we run the file, we want it to act as a different network node. Let's do this by running the file on different ports every time we run it. To have a different ports value every time, we'll have to make port a variable. To do this, add the following line at the start of the code...
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