Command Line Interface & Module Architecture

[braydonf]

Include a command line utility for interacting with a bitcore-node with the following abilities:

Step 1: Install

npm install -g bitcore-node

Install bitcore-node using the global option to add bitcore-node to your path.

Step 2: Configure

bitcore-node create mynode "My Node"
cd mynode
bitcore-node add wallet-service
bitcore-node add insight-api

This will create a new directory and add services to your node via configuration settings similar to:

mynode
├── bitcore-node.json
├── data
│  ├── bitcoin.conf
│  ├── bitcore-node.db
│  │   ├── 163997.ldb
│  │   └── ...
│
├── node_modules
│   ├── bitcore
│   ├── bitcore-node
│   ├── bitcore-wallet-service
│   └── insight-api
└── package.json

With a bitcore-node.json file similar to:

{
  "name": "My Node",
    "modules": [
      "bitcore-wallet-service"
      "insight-api"
   ],
   "datadir": "./data",
   "network": "livenet"
}

And a package.json in the format:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "bitcore": "^0.12.15",
    "bitcore-node": "^1.0.0",
    "bitcore-wallet-service": "^3.0.0",
    "bitcore-insight-api": "^4.0.0"
  }
}

Step 3: Start

$ bitcore-node start

The bitcore-node start command will then dynamically create a node based on the configuration options in bitcore-node.json, load all of the necessary node modules, and configure the node with the enabled services.