Run your Blobscan instance

Running locally

Requirements

Installing dependencies

Install a recent Node.js version and pnpm:

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
curl -fsSL https://get.pnpm.io/install.sh | sh -

Git clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Blobscan/blobscan.git
cd blobscan

Install all the Node.js dependencies:

pnpm fetch -r
pnpm install -r
SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION=true npm run build

Setup environment variables

PostgreSQL database

You need to have access to a database.

You can use the provided docker-compose file to spin up the required databases (Postgres and Redis):

docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml up -d postgres redis

Configure the environment variables accordingly, including the DATABASE_URL.

Run

Run the development command:

pnpm dev

Lastly, apply all database migrations and optionally, add some fixture data:

cd packages/db
pnpm db:migrate
pnpm db:seed

Metrics aggregation

Dagster calculates the metrics. To calculate the metrics during development, run Dagster and do a backfill of the metrics assets. For the procedure, refer to the apps/dagster README.

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