VergeExplorer

A responsive design Verge (XVG) Cryptocurrency Blockchain Explorer built on top of KoaJS JSON API (NodeJS) backend and VueJS (vue-cli) frontend

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes

Prerequisites

* Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Server
* NodeJS v10.16.3
* NPM v6.9.0
* MongoDB v4.0.12 with Replica Set enabled and configured (required for ACID transactions)
* Verge Daemon v6.0.2 (Fully Synced) -> verge-6.0.2-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz [https://github.com/vergecurrency/VERGE/releases]

What is not covered here

* Installation of NodeJS, MongoDB,...
* Creation of a MongoDB Database and user
* Configuration of a MongoDB Replica Set

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development environment running

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/peengo/vergeexplorer.git

Install npm packages and dependencies

cd vergeexplorer/server && npm install
cd ..
cd client && npm install

Download & extract from verge-6.0.2-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz [https://github.com/vergecurrency/VERGE/releases]

Create a .VERGE folder inside your home directory

Copy VERGE.conf file to this directory

Fill out rpcuser= and rpcpassword= fields in this file. You decide what this two will be. You will use this values later in .env file

Start the Verge Daemon (RPC)

./verge-6.0.2/bin/verged -daemon

This will take time to sync the blockchain. Alternatively and advisiably you can download the blockchain to speed up the blockchain syncing process

Inside server folder create an empty .env file with the contents from example.env and fill it out with proper values.

Inside client folder create .env.development.local file with VUE_APP_API_DEV_URL=http://192.168.0.104:5000 <- your IP and port to the backend (server) API here

Create a MongoDB database with the name blockchain

Create collections and build indexes with the commands below

use blockchain

db.createCollection("blocks")
db.createCollection("txs")
db.createCollection("addresses")
db.createCollection("ios")

db.blocks.createIndex({ height: 1 }, { unique: true, background: true })
db.blocks.createIndex({ hash: 1 }, { unique: true, background: true })

db.txs.createIndex({ txid: 1 }, { unique: true, background: true })
db.txs.createIndex({ "vin.txid": 1 }, { background: true })
db.txs.createIndex({ time: 1 }, { background: true })
db.txs.createIndex({ "vout.scriptPubKey.addresses": 1 }, { background: true })
db.txs.createIndex({ "vout.scriptPubKey.type": 1 }, { background: true })
db.txs.createIndex({ blockhash: 1 }, { background: true })

db.addresses.createIndex({ address: 1 }, { unique: true, background: true })
db.addresses.createIndex({ balance: 1 }, { background: true, collation: { locale: "en_US", numericOrdering: true }})

db.ios.createIndex({ txid: 1 }, { background: true })
db.ios.createIndex({ address: 1 }, { background: true })
db.ios.createIndex({ type: 1 }, { background: true })
db.ios.createIndex({ time: 1 }, { background: true })
db.ios.createIndex({ time: -1, type: -1 }, { background: true })

Running

Start syncing blockchain to the database

Do this when the Verge Daemon is running (fully synced) and accepting commands

inside server folder

npm run sync

Start server (Backend) API

inside server folder

npm run dev

Start client (Frontend)

inside client folder

npm run serve