WIP

This is a WIP project on a Token-based Plasma Cash Implementations. This repo corresponds to API and Side-Chain in the 3-repo project.

API Side Chain - https://github.com/epord/Plasma-Cash-SideChain

Front End Client - https://github.com/epord/CryptoMons-client

Ethereum Contracts - https://github.com/epord/Plasma-Cash-RootChain

Migration to Typescript is being developed on.

How to Run

Requirements

1. Install MongoDB using port dbport (default is 27017), and create a database with name dbname.
2. Create the file .env in the root directory and add the following lines:

   PORT=8082                               \\ Port of the API
   MONGO_URL=localhost                     \\ Database URL
   MONGO_PORT=`dbport`                     \\ Database Port
   MONGO_DB_NAME=`dbname`                  \\ Database Name
   BLOCKCHAIN_WS_URL = ws://localhost:7545 \\ Blockchain WebSocket URL 
   AUTO_CHALLENGE = false                  \\ Flag for plasma-challenging the automatically
   

3. Make sure to check How to run the blockchain and follow the readme

Run

1. Make sure the Blockchain is running, follow the readme in this repo
2. npm install
3. npm start
4. To interact with the API check How to run the client and follow the readme