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QTUM DApp Server

A Web Server for running third-party DApps.

All requests made by a DApp would block until you approve it in the authorization UI.

Install qtum-portal

If you have golang installed, you can install the latest version:

go get -u github.com/hayeah/qtum-portal/cli/qtumportal

Or, you can download pre-built binaries from Releases

Running A QTUM DApp

First, we'll need to make sure that qtumd is running.

For testing/development purposes, let's start qtumd in regtest mode:

docker run -it --rm \
  --name myapp \
  -v `pwd`:/dapp \
  -p 3889:3889 \
  hayeah/qtumportal

Then use the env variable QTUM_RPC to specify the URL of your local qtumd RPC node:

export QTUM_RPC=http://qtum:test@localhost:3889

Now we are ready to run the DApp. Clone an example DApp to your local machine:

$ git clone https://github.com/hayeah/qtum-dapp-getnewaddr.git

Use the serve command to start a web-server for the DApp:

$ qtumportal serve qtum-dapp-getnewaddr/build

INFO[0000] Serving DApp from /Users/howard/p/qtum/qtum-dapp-getnewaddr/build
INFO[0000] DApp service listening :9888
INFO[0000] Auth service listening :9899

Open the DApp in your browser at http://localhost:9888. Click the getnewaddr button to generate a new payment address. The request will be pending until you authorize (or deny) the request.

In another tab, open http://localhost:9899 to authorize transactions requested by the DApp.

Developing QTUM DApp (Insecure)

Typically you'd be using a live-reload server when developing your HTML5 DApp. By default QTUM portal provides security by locking down the DApp from making cross domain requests. If you are using a dev server for development purposes, you'll need to disable CORS protection.

The example DApp getnewaddr uses Neutrino for project building.

Start the Neutrino live-reload dev-server:

$ cd qtum-dapp-getnewaddr
$ npm start
✔ Development server running on: http://localhost:3000
✔ Build completed

Then start qtumportal in dev-mode:

$ qtumportal serve --dev
INFO[0000] Auth service listening :9899
INFO[0000] DApp service listening :9888

In your DApp code, configure the QtumRPC client to use http://localhost:9888 as the RPC endpoint:

let rpcURL: string

if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "development") {
  rpcURL = "http://localhost:9888"
} else {
  // In production mode, make RPC request to origin host.
  rpcURL = window.location.origin
}

const rpc = new QtumRPC(rpcURL)

Open http://localhost:3000 in browser to develop using the Neutrino live-reload server.

If you are not using a live-reload server, you could also serve a static directory in dev mode:

$ qtumportal serve examples/getnewaddr/build --dev
INFO[0000] DApp service listening :9888
INFO[0000] Auth service listening :9899

Open http://localhost:9888 in browser.