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Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript

By : Eric Traub
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Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript

By: Eric Traub

Overview of this book

Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript begins by giving you a clear understanding of what blockchain technology is. You’ll then set up an environment to build your very own blockchain and you’ll add various functionalities to it. By adding functionalities to your blockchain such as the ability to mine new blocks, create transactions, and secure your blockchain through a proof-of-work you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of how blockchain technology functions. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll learn how to build an API server to interact with your blockchain and how to host your blockchain on a decentralized network. You’ll also build a consensus algorithm and use it to verify data and keep the entire blockchain network synchronized. In the concluding chapters, you’ll finish building your blockchain prototype and gain a thorough understanding of why blockchain technology is so secure and valuable. By the end of this book, you'll understand how decentralized blockchain networks function and why decentralization is such an important feature for securing a blockchain.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Building the /transaction endpoint

In this section, we are going to build our transaction endpoint. Let's follow the below mentioned steps:

  1. Before we start, please make sure that whenever you are working on our blockchain you have your server running. We can do that by running the npm start command in our terminal.
  2. Let's head over to our api.js file and build our transaction endpoint. First of all, take out the example code that we added earlier in the /transaction endpoint and create a new transaction in our blockchain. To do that, we are going to use our createNewTransaction method in the blockchain.js file that we built in Chapter 2, Building a Blockchain.
  3. As you know, our createNewTransaction method takes in three parameters: amount, sender, and recipient:
Blockchain.prototype.createNewTransaction = function(amount, sender, recipient) {
const newTransaction ...