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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 FREE CHAPTER 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

Installing Postman and body-parser

In this section, we're going to work on our environment to make our development process a little bit easier. The first thing that we're going to do is install a new package called nodemon. In our blockchain directory in our terminal, we will write the npm i nodemon --save command:

Whenever we make a change in one of our files and save it, this nodemon library will automatically restart our server for us so that we don't have to go back and forth from the terminal to our code to restart the server every time we make a change.

To use nodemon, we are going to open up our package.json file. Where it says "scripts", we're going to add a new script:

{
"name": "javaScript-blockchain",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js&quot...
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