Skycoin Explorer

https://explorer.skycoin.net

Requirements

go>=1.8
node>=v6.9.0
npm>=3.10.10

Go

The server is written in golang.

The golang server returns the static content from dist/ and proxies a subset of the skycoin node API.

Angular

As an Angular CLI projects, Node 6.9.0 or higher, together with NPM 3 are required.

After cloning the project, you will need to run npm install to pull in all javascript dependencies.

The angular code is compiled to the dist/ folder.

Usage

Run a skycoin node

git clone github.com/skycoin/skycoin
cd skycoin
./run.sh

Run the explorer

make run

This must be run from the same directory that contains dist/.

The explorer assumes that the skycoin node is running on localhost:6420 by default.

To point it at a different address:

SKYCOIN_ADDR=http://127.0.0.1:3333 ./explorer

explorer can be run in api-only mode, which will expose the JSON API but not serve the static content from dist/:

make run-api

API documentation

HTML documentation:

http://explorer.skycoin.net/api.html

JSON formatted API docs:

http://explorer.skycoin.net/api/docs

Development

After changing the angular frontend, it should be compiled and committed to the repo. This is to simplify deployment of the application, and allow users to run it themselves without installing node and npm then running npm install and npm run build.

Compiling the angular frontend

make build-ng

Formatting

explorer.go should be formatted with goimports. You can do this with:

make format

You must have goimports installed (use make install-linters).

Code Linting

Install prerequisites:

make install-linters

Run linters:

make lint

Deployment

Compile explorer.go to a binary:

make build-go

Allow it to bind to port 80 using setcap:

sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' ./explorer

Run it on port 80:

EXPLORER_HOST=:80 ./explorer