bullrich / bitcoin-block-list Goto Github PK

You can find the project online here: block-listing.herokuapp.com/

Small project which lists the latest blocks in the bitcoin blockchain.

For testing purpose I decided to use docker.

To execute run: docker-compose up and this will build the images and run them.

After that go to 127.0.0.1:80 to see the front end application.

If you want to open the development environment you need to have redis running in your machine.

Then do npm install in the root directory and in the client directory.

In the root directory run npm run dev to concurrently run both systems.

The project was developed in 3 hours (4 hours if we consider debugging, documenting and figuring out why blockchain.info wasn't working).

Because blockchain.info gave slow results I added redis as a cache server to stop spamming their api. This boosted the speed quite a lot (specially because blocks are quite big and they don't change).

For the front end I did a simple CRA and added/removed features as needed.

I used react-router for the routes.

For UI I used the material-ui component library.

For the API I used express.

For fetching info I used got.

I get the information from the blockchain.info api and then modify it to only send the minimum information required. I also cache this value in redis with a timeout.

The things that I would like to add are:

• Unit & integration testing.
• A custom stylesheet instead of a component library.
• Animations for the transitions
• Some loading feedback.