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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

Testing our block explorer

In this section, we're going to test the block explorer to make sure that it works correctly, and also to make sure that all endpoints and methods that we created in the previous chapter also work correctly. If the block explorer works, then we already know that the entire blockchain is also working correctly and is running on the decentralized blockchain network, so everything is wrapping up nicely now as we enter the final section of this chapter. Consequently, this is the last test that we will be doing. Let's follow these steps now to test the block explorer:

  1. In order to test the block explorer, we should ensure that we have all five of the nodes running.
  2. Next, head over to the browser and open up the block explorer by going to localhost:3003/block-explorer. You can actually go to a block explorer that's hosted on any of the nodes...
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