Blockchain By Example

Setting up the frontend development

The first step is to ensure our environment is ready to work with. Certain dependencies will need to be pulled in using NPM, so it's important that this is installed and up to date. If you don't already have it installed, do so using the relevant instructions from https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm.

Once NPM is installed, run the following from the root directory of the project:

npm init

This will step through the fields that need to be set in our project's package.json file. An example file is shown here:

{  "name": "packtcoin",  "version": "1.0.0",  "description": "\"Packt Token Sale ICO\"",  "main": "app.js",  "directories": {    "test": "test"  },  "scripts": {    "test": "test",  },  "author": "<your_name>", "license": ...