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Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript

You're reading from  Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789618822
Pages 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Author (1):
Eric Traub Eric Traub
Profile icon Eric Traub

Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface 1. Setting up the Project 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

Building the /receive-new-block endpoint

The next thing that we're going to do is build the /receive-new-block endpoint that we use in the updated /mine endpoint. Let's get started on building the endpoint:

  1. In the dev/networkNode.js file, before the /register-and-broadcast-node endpoint, define the /receive-new-block endpoint as follows:
app.post('/receive-new-block', function(req, res) {
};
  1. Inside this endpoint, the code expects to receive a new block that is being broadcast. Let's save that new block in a variable, as highlighted in the following code:
app.post('/receive-new-block', function(req, res) {
const newBlock = req.body.newBlock;

};
  1. When all of the other nodes receive this new block, they need to check whether it's actually a real block and whether it fits into the chain properly. To verify this, the previousBlockHash...
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