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Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript

You're reading from  Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789618822
Pages 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Concepts
Author (1):
Eric Traub Eric Traub
Profile icon Eric Traub

Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface 1. Setting up the Project 2. Building a Blockchain 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

Building the /transaction/:transactionId endpoint

Let's build the /transaction/:transactionId endpoint by using the getTransaction method that we built in the previous section. Let's begin:

  1. The first thing to do inside of this endpoint is to store the transaction ID sent as a request parameter. Let's store that in a transactionId variable, as follows:
app.get('/transaction/:transactionId', function(req, res) {
const transactionId = req.params.transactionId;
});
  1. The next thing to do is use the getTransaction method inside of the endpoint. To do this, add the following to the preceding code:
app.get('/transaction/:transactionId', function(req, res) {
const transactionId = req.params.transactionId;
bitcoin.getTransaction(transactionId);

});
  1. From the getTransaction method, we get an object returned to us that...
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