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blockchain-voting-backend

Documentation

To view the OpenAPI documentation:

  1. Go to https://editor.swagger.io/
  2. Copy'n'paste the content of docs/openapi.yaml into the editor
  3. Enjoy!

Build/run with docker

To build this as a docker image run:

docker build -t blockchain-voting-backend .

To run it on docker:

docker run -it --rm --init -p 9999:9999 blockchain-voting-backend

It'll listen on port TCP 9999 for http requests. CTRL-C to stop it.

Build/run old-fashioned

Make sure to have installed:

  • NodeJS (current LTS recommendeD)
  • TypeScript npm install -g typescript
  • The ability to build node-gyp modules

To build:

  1. npm install
  2. tsc

To run: node ./build/server.js

Configuration

The backend can be configured by some environment variables:

Variable Description Default
DB_HOST Postgres database host localhost
DB_USER Postgres database user votingadmin
DB_PASSWORD Postgres database password supersecret
CONTRACT_ADDR Ethereum smart contract address 0x50ba2e417d573fcd67fab8ee5d6d764b105cd5f7
PORT HTTP API port to listen on 9999
RPC_URL URL to the ethereum client RPC http://localhost:8545