Building Blockchain Projects

Building the backend

Let's first build the backend of the app. First of all, run npm install inside the Initial directory to install the required dependencies for our backend.

Here is the backend code to run an express service and serve the index.html file and static files and set the view engine:

var express = require("express"); var app = express(); app.set("view engine", "ejs"); app.use(express.static("public")); app.listen(8080); app.get("/", function(req, res) {     res.sendFile(__dirname + "/public/html/index.html"); })

The preceding code is self-explanatory. Now let's proceed further. Our app will have another page, which will display a list of recent matches with matches' IDs and result if a match has finished. Here is the code for ...