Setting up a test network
To build our project, we'll launch a simple Stellar network that contains a single blockchain node and a single client-server. The blockchain node in Stellar is called Stellar Core while the client-server is called Horizon. Horizon is a client-API server that extends a suite of handy endpoints that allow application developers to view transaction data and statistics and submit transactions to the core blockchain node. Similar to web3-js, Stellar has a Stellar Javascript SDK, which allows us to build requests that we can use to interact with Horizon.
Stellar provides a handy Docker image that can be used to quickly launch an ephemeral (temporary) or persistent (permanent) container so that we can implement the Stellar ...
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