A pure, powerful core for your Reddcoin project.
Opalcore is a complete, native interface to the Reddcoin network, and provides the core functionality needed to develop apps for Reddcoin.
#Principles
Reddcoin is a powerful new peer-to-peer platform for the next generation of financial and social technology. The decentralized nature of the Reddcoin network allows for highly resilient Reddcoin infrastructure, and the developer community needs reliable, open-source tools to implement Reddcoin apps and services.
Opalcore unchains developers from fallible, centralized APIs, and provides the tools to interact with the real Reddcoin network.
#Get Started
Opalcore runs on node, and can be installed via npm:
npm install opalcore
It is a collection of objects useful to Reddcoin applications; class-like idioms are enabled viaSoop. In most cases, a developer will require the object's class directly. For instance:
var opalcore = require('opalcore');
var Address = opalcore.Address;
var Transaction = opalcore.Transaction;
var PeerManager = opalcore.PeerManager;#Examples
Examples are provided here Build the examples by installing and running gulp:
npm install -g gulp
gulp
Javascript files available at /examples folder.
#Security
Please use at your own risk.
Opalcore is still under heavy development and not quite ready for "drop-in" production use. If you find a security issue, please email [email protected]
#Contributing
Opalcore needs some developer love. Please send pull requests for bug fixes, code optimization, and ideas for improvement.
#Browser support
To build Opalcore full bundle for the browser (this is automatically executed after you run npm install):
node browser/build.js -a
This will generate a browser/bundle.js file which you can include in your HTML to use Opalcore in the browser.
##Example browser usage
From example/simple.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<script src="../browser/bundle.js"></script>
<script>
var opalcore = require('opalcore');
var Address = opalcore.Address;
var a = new Address('RqAahY1pTk1q417ALF4ScYGLWthphAGaHW');
console.log('RqAahY1pTk1q417ALF4ScYGLWthphAGaHW is valid? '+a.isValid());
</script>
</body>
</html>You can check a more complex usage example at examples/example.html.
To build the main Opalcore bundle, run:
node browser/build.js -m
To build all features into the Opalcore bundle (which will lead to a large file size), run:
node browser/build.js -a
To generate a customized Opalcore bundle, you can specify which submodules you want to include in it with the -s option:
node browser/build.js -s lib/Transaction,lib/Address
This will generate a browser/bundle.js containing only the Transaction and Address class, with all their dependencies.
Use this option if you are not using the whole Opalcore library, to optimize the bundle size, script loading time, and general resource usage.
Run tests in node:
mocha
Or generate tests in the browser:
grunt shell
And then open test/index.html in your browser.
To run the code coverage report:
npm run-script coverage
And then open coverage/lcov-report/index.html in your browser.
#License
Bitcore Code released under the MIT license.
Copyright 2013-2014 BitPay, Inc. Bitcore is a trademark maintained by BitPay, Inc.
