The dapp requires a running powergate instance for two reasons:
- The twitter thread rollup bot pushes the ERC721 compliant metadata of a rolled up thread to the IPFS node that a shared powergate instance runs (hence why this is also a prerequisite for running the twitter bot)
- Powergate provides a nicer interface into the filecoin network for creating a storage deal. When someone purchases a rolled up thread and tokenises it on Ethereum, a storage deal has to be made on the filecoin network first. With the data source being the powergate IPFS node, a storage deal can be created off the back of this data source.
Powergate can either be run locally (by creating a devnet) or hosted. With the host address, the dapp's Powergate service needs updating accordingly. Going forward, we aim to have this driven by a .env file but have been experiencing build issues regarding this.
The dapp has been Dockerised and therefore can be run as a Docker container.
You could build and run it locally in the same way as the Docker file or you can generate a static version of the site by running:
npm run generate
which will generate a dist/ directory in the project root
- setup the project
$ npm install
- add
.envfile
PORT=3000- run the project
$ npm run dev