Dandelion Explorer

A React web application to build queries and explore Cardano Blockchain using Dandelion's Community Service PostgREST API

Based on PostGUI, adapted for Cardano Blockchain and the awesome Dandelion APIs project.

Introduction

Developers using Dandelion Community APIs did not have a UI tool to query the PostgREST API. Same as Koios, Blockfrost, and deployments relying on Postgres DB filled by cardano-db-sync or ledger-sync indexers.

This tool relies on popular open-source works such as:

• Material UI
• PostgREST
• JS Query Builder
• and more!

Default Databases

For Dandelion Community Service, the two databases indexed by cardano-db-sync are already configured:

• Cardano Mainnet
• Cardano Pre-Production Testnet

The database picker allows multiple PostgreSQL databases to be shared from a single instance of Dandelion Explorer. The database name is customizable using the /data/config.json file.

Installation

1. Open a new command line terminal.
2. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/GameChangerFinance/dandelion-explorer.git
3. Navigate into the cloned repository: cd dandelion-explorer.
4. Install node dependencies by executing: npm install.
5. Using the command line tool, execute npm start to run the web application.

Why?

I cannot think of a more resilient and community focused project on Cardano than Dandelion APIs. It has stayed with us with or without proper funding, it has born with a huge educational approach from Gimbalabs itself being their flagship API service for years now, and it has been powering projects like GameChanger Wallet since the very beginning of this ecosystem.

Cardano wont ever be the same without Dandelion APIs!

This is a tiny contribution back to the Dandelion Community, for developers and students to have a graphical online tool to not only explore and export queries, but also to be able to build them and use them on their own projects.

Thanks to PostGUI creator for the excellent work done.