Displaying Ethereum Node information

Retrieving node information is the first thing we can do to test that the application can connect to our locally running blockchain via the Ganache server.

In this section, we are going to retrieve some basic information and display it in the Header section of the main application page.

We shall touch on the following important aspects in this section:

• Getting information about the currently running Ethereum node
• Presenting node information to users on the screen

First, let's learn how to fetch node information.

Getting node information

We already have a web3 client instance. We can use the following API to gather information about the current node:

web3.eth.getNodeInfo(callback...