Block Explorer

A block explorer Front End to connect to the etherium parity client for visualisation of Etherium chain and possible frauds

A block explorer using：

• Koa Koa-router backend
• Vue.js frontend
• Database OrientDB

Installation

$ npm install

Before push code -- code style

run npm run lint and fix errors if any

Run locally

Backend and frontend are both started with one command

Backend & frontend

# Tunnel parity request through server
sshuttle -r youruser@explorer.snet.tu-berlin.de 130.149.223.150/32

npm install
npm start

Building front-end

# build for production with minification
npm run build

Prerequsites

• ensure docker and docker-compose is installed

Running through docker(Use sudo if asked for permission)

docker-compose up --build 

Deploy to production

Make sure you have pm2 installed

pm2 deploy production

Parity JSONRPC example

Request

URL: http://localhost:3000/external/parity
Method: 'POST',
Parameters(see parity documentation): {method: 'trace_block', params: ["0x4C4B40"],id:1, jsonrpc: '2.0' },

Response

{
  data: {}, //response from parity
  success: true
}