Casper Explorer

The purpose of the explorer is to help users interact with the blockchain:

• Sign up to participate in devnet
• Create accounts (public/private key pairs)
• Ask the faucet for tokens on devnet
• Explore the block DAG
• Deploy contracts

Prerequisites

You need to have a Casperlabs node to run the Clarity against.

You can spin up an nctl network of nodes locally, or, if you have a running node, you can add a proxy in front of it. This repository offers a docker image you can build to use as the proxy. To build the image execute the following command from the repository root:

docker build -t clarity-node-proxy -f Dockerfile.node-proxy .

Setup

After cloning the repo cd to the root of the clarity dir and run:

  yarn install  // Installs dependencies
  yarn build    // Builds components from packages

Now that the packages and network are ready you will need 4 terminals to get it all working:

// Terminal A
  cd packages/event_store
  rm development_sqlite.db    // Wipe old data
  npm run start-web-server    // Start event-store

// Terminal B
  export NODE_ADDRESS=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx && npm run start-event-handler // Start processing event-stream

// Terminal C
docker run -p 8081:80 -e NODE_ADDRESS=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx clarity-node-proxy // Start node proxy

// Terminal D
  cd ../../
  yarn dev    // Start local Clarity instance

If you want to run the Cypress test suite you will then need one more terminal and run one of the following:

  yarn cypress:dev    // Opens the Cypress GUI and holds the test window open on
                       completion of the suite.
  yarn cypress:chrome // Runs the Cypress tests and closes the browser on completion,
                        results are printed to the terminal.