API

Requirements

• Nodejs LTS version >= 8.1.14
• MongoDB

Installation

1. Clone the repository and checkout the correct branch

git clone https://github.com/status-im/dreddit-dapp.git
cd dreddit-dapp
git checkout ethberlin
npm install

2. If you want to change the DB server connection string or accounts that can upload tshirts, edit ./api/config.js

3. Build the service with npm run-script build

4. Start the service by running npm run-script serve

If you're a developer, you might want to execute npm start instead of the previous instruction. This will reload the server when you make changes, but it's not recommended for production usage

DAPP

Requirements

• Embark (latest version is recommended)
• IPFS

Installation

1. Clone the repository and checkout the correct branch

git clone https://github.com/status-im/dreddit-dapp.git
cd dreddit-dapp
git checkout ethberlin
npm install

2. Edit ./app/js/config.js to set the URL of the restful service

3. embark run

Uploading

At the moment it needs to be done manually to avoid having large files. Embark 2.0 will provide options to compress the size of javascript files via webpack configuration.

1. Start embark blockchain testnet and ipfs daemon in a different terminal session

embark build testnet
npm run-script uglify
npm run-script upload

Using the hash returned by ipfs, edit ./api/config.js to set the DApp URL. Access the URL in a browser and then pin it to infura.

curl "https://ipfs.infura.io:5001/api/v0/pin/add?arg=YOUR_IPFS_FOLDER_HASH_HERE&recursive=true"

You can also access the public list of gateways in https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/ , browse the same hash on all the online gateways, to guarantee having more nodes in the network containing your files. (This could be automated with wget)