Blockchain By Example

Serving your frontend using Swarm

The method for adding our site to Swarm is almost identical to the previous method. With Swarm running, as outlined earlier, we will use our existing dist/ directory, along with the --recursive flag.

In addition, we will pass a default path that specifies the file to render in the case of a request for a resource with an empty path, as follows:

$ swarm --defaultpath dist/index.html --recursive up dist/ 2a504aac8d02f7715bea19c6c19b5a2be8f7ab9442297b2b64bbb04736de9699

Having uploaded our files, the site can then be viewed through our local Swarm client using the generated hash, as follows: http://localhost:8500/bzz:/2a504aac8d02f7715bea19c6c19b5a2be8f7ab9442297b2b64bbb04736de9699/.

In the same way that we ...