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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

Setting up Express.js

Let's start building our API or our server to interact with our blockchain data structure. We will be building our API in a new file that we will put into our dev folder. Let's create a new file and call it api.js; this is where we will build our entire API:

Installing Express.js

Now, we are going to use a library called Express.js to build a server or an API. Let's follow the below mentioned steps to install it:

  1. So, head over to Google, search for Express.js npm, and click on the first link ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/express ). This should take you to the following page:
  1. We have to install it as a dependency, so we must run the following command in our terminal:

Now we have...

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