Blackjade is a peer-to-peer blockchain API built from scratch, primarily using the MERN stack of technologies. This is currently a work in progress, with the main blockchain implementation already completed. It will be deployed as soon as authentication is completed and the frontend is polished.

1. Install Redis locally on the same machine.
2. Create a .env at the root level of the project.
3. The file should contain the following variables:

blackjade/.env

REDIS_URL="redis://localhost:6379"
ROOT_NODE_ADDRESS="http://localhost:3000"

4. If you installed Redis on another devices in your network, modify the following settings:

/etc/redis/redis.conf

protected-mode no
# requirepass < comment this out

5. After that change, your .env should look like:

blackjade/.env

REDIS_URL="redis://192.168.0.106:6379" < ip address of the redis node
ROOT_NODE_ADDRESS="http://localhost:3000"

1. Open two terminals I will call them t1 and t2.
2. Start the blockchain server API

(t1)$ cd server
(t1)$ npm run dev

3. Start the client vite server.

(t2)$ cd client
(t2)$ npm run dev

4. Run the filler scripts to populate the blockchain

(t1)$ npm run fill-blocks
(t1)$ npm run fill-txpool

3. Go to http://localhost:5173 to view