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Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript

You're reading from   Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript Build your very own Blockchain and decentralized network with JavaScript and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789618822
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eric Traub Eric Traub
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Preface 1. Setting up the Project 2. Building a Blockchain FREE CHAPTER 3. Accessing the Blockchain through an API 4. Creating a Decentralized Blockchain Network 5. Synchronizing the Network 6. Consensus Algorithms 7. Block Explorer 8. In conclusion... 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

New endpoints outline

In our blockchain, we would now like to create a network and have a way to register all of the different nodes that we have with it. Therefore, let's make a couple more endpoints that will make it possible to register nodes with our network.

Defining the /register-and-broadcast-node endpoint

The first endpoint that we create will be /register-and-broadcast-node, and this is defined as follows:

app.post('/register-and-broadcast-node', function (req, res) {

});

The preceding endpoint will register a node and broadcast that node to the whole network. It will do this by passing the URL of the node we want to register on the req body. Therefore, type the following inside the preceding endpoint...

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