Real-time json cache server for blockchain data

Note: Please use develop branch for contributing.

Welcome to the server code for Giveth's dapp. The dapp uses feathers as a cache for its blockchain transactions. By utilizing websockets on both the blockchain and client devices, we can receive and push updates simultaneously to all users in real time.

Table of content

• Table of content
• Getting Started
  • Install
  • Run server
  • Kill Ganache
  • IPFS Support
  • Video Walkthrough
• Deploying
• Scripts
• Testing
• Debugging
• Usage
• Production
• RSK
• Help

Getting Started

Install

• Linux

  If your operative system is any distrubution of linux you can use an All in One installation scripts special thanks to Dapp contributor Jurek Brisbane, available here along with a youtube video

• Any OS

  1. Click Star on this repo near the top-right corner of this web page (if you want to).
  2. Join our slack if you haven't already.
  3. Fork this repo by clicking Fork button in top-right corner of this web page. Continue to follow instruction steps from your own feathers-giveth repo.
  4. The rest of these steps must be done from your machine's command line. Clone your own "feathers-giveth" repo. Copy the link from the "Clone or download" button near the top right of this repo's home page.

     git clone {paste your own repo link here}
     

  5. Change directories to feathers-giveth:

     cd feathers-giveth
     

  6. Make sure you have NodeJS (v8.4.0 or higher), yarn (v0.27.5 or higher), and npm (5.4.1 or higher) installed.
  7. Install dependencies from within feathers-giveth directory:

     npm install
     

     • note: due to a bug in yarn, yarn install currently does not work
  8. Install Mongo (we recommend installing via Brew)
  9. Run Mongo in a terminal window mongod or in the background mongod --fork --syslog
  10. (optionally) Install IPFS (we recommend installing via Brew)
  • If you don't install ipfs, image uploading will be affected. You can update the config ipfsGateway value to use a public ipfs gateway ex. https://ipfs.io/ipfs/, however your uploads will be removed at some point

Run server

The feathers server will need to connect to an ethereum node via websockets. Typically this will be a local TestRPC instance. The configuration param blockchain.nodeUrl is used to establish a connection. The default nodeUrl is ws://localhost:8545

1. We need to deploy any contract to that we intend to call. NOTE: The following cmd will clear the data dir, thus starting off in a clean state.

   yarn deploy-local
   

   After deploying local, make sure to copy-paste the MiniMeToken address in default.json

2. We provide an easy way to start the bridge & 2 ganache-cli instances. VERY IMPORTANT: this command enables Home Ganache and Foreign Ganache networks, if you are using MetaMask you will need to add a Custom RPC to your networks config,http://localhost:8546 will be Foreign Ganache, and Home Ganache is normally added by default which is http://localhost:8545 if needed.

   yarn start:networks
   

3. Since the bridge & ganache-cli is now running, open a new terminal window and navigate to the same feathers-giveth directory.

4. Optionally open a new terminal window and start the ipfs daemon

   ipfs daemon
   

5. Start your app

   yarn start
   

Kill Ganache

If you run into errors like wallet balance not loading, it is very likely that Ganache is stuck netstat -vanp tcp | grep 8545 Find the process that is listening on *.8545 and 127.0.0.1.8545 and kill it with kill -9 PID (which is in the last colomn)

IPFS Support

If the ipfsApi is a valid ipfs node that we can connect to, we will pin every ipfs hash that is stored in feathers. We currently do not remove any orphaned (hashes with no references in feathers) ipfs hashs. In the future we will provide a script that you can run as a cronjob to unpin any orphaned hashes.

Video Walkthrough

Video tutorial walkthrough here: https://tinyurl.com/y9lx6jrl

Deploying

1. Start a production server

   yarn serve
   

Scripts

The feathers-giveth/scripts directory contains a few scripts to help development.

• deploy.js - deploys a new vault & liquidPledging contract

• getState.js - prints the current state of the deployed vault & liquidPledging contracts.

• confirm.js - confirms any payments that are pending in the vault

• makeUserAdmin.js - make a user admin

Testing

Simply run yarn test and all your tests in the test/ directory will be run.

Debugging

You can control the logging level with the LOG_LEVEL env variable. Available levels can be found at: https://github.com/winstonjs/winston/tree/2.x#logging-levels

To enable debug logging simply start the server with LOG_LEVEL=debug yarn start

Usage

Each of these services are available via rest or websockets:

campaigns
dacs
donations
donationsHistory
milestones
uploads
users

If the server is using default configurations, you can see data for any of these services through your web browser at http://localhost:3030/SERVICE_NAME

Production

We use pm2 to manage our production servers. You can start the server using the yarn serve cmd. You will need to create an ecosystem.config.js file with the following contents:

module.exports = {
  /**
   * Application configuration section
   * http://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/application-declaration/
   */
  apps: [
    // First application
    {
      name: 'feathers',
      script: 'src/index.js',
      log_date_format: 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm',
      env: {
        COMMON_VARIABLE: 'true',
      },
      env_production: {
        NODE_ENV: 'production',
      },
    },
  ],
};

RSK

1. You will need to download the rsk node. After installing, you will run the node w/ the regtest network for local development.

java -jar rskj-core-0.5.2-ORCHID-all.jar co.rsk.Start --regtest

or

java -Drsk.conf.file=rsk.conf -jar rskj-core-0.5.2-ORCHID-all.jar co.rsk.Start

2. We need to deploy any contracts that we intend to call. NOTE: You will also need to ensure that your rsk node is in a clean state (reset) for the configured addresses to be correct.

   npm run deploy-local:rsk
   

3. Optionally open a new terminal window and start the ipfs daemon

   ipfs daemon
   

4. Start your app

   yarn start:rsk
   

Help

For more info on how to work with feathers checkout out their docs on service methods, service events, and database querying.

Also feel free to reach out to us on slack for any help or to share ideas.