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Ripple Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Ripple Quick Start Guide Get started with XRP and develop applications on Ripple's blockchain

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532197
Length 160 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Febin John James Febin John James
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First Ripple application

In our first application, we'll write a simple program to connect to the network and fetch the account details of a specific Ripple address.

Here's the code that connects to the Ripple test network and fetches the account details of the address: 'r41sFTd4rftxY1VCn5ZDDipb4KaV5VLFy2'. Let's run this code first and then get into the details to learn how it works. Save the following code into a file and give it the name 'get_account.js':

'use strict';
const RippleAPI = require('ripple-lib').RippleAPI;

const api = new RippleAPI({
server: 'wss://s.altnet.rippletest.net:51233' // Ripple Test Network Address
});

api.connect().then(() => {
const accountAddress = 'r41sFTd4rftxY1VCn5ZDDipb4KaV5VLFy2';

console.log('Fetching account details of', accountAddress);
return api.getAccountInfo...
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