RChain RDev

This project aims to create an environment to support the active development of rholang. The RDev developer environment owes its history to the efforts of the rchain-community, with special note going to the RGov team. Contributors using vscode are encouraged to install the rholang extension, as development of rholang sometimes requires more than a simple web interface.

To run RNode stand-alone on localhost:

for bootstrapping, snapshots, and updating a rdev localhost instance for linux and Windows-10 WSL2

Watch video of how to run an rnode localhost and add rgov actions here https://youtu.be/9TIPXXSXwnE bootstraping updates https://youtu.be/fuXFDRXJsVM

localhost deployment and development

To create an rchain node locally, deploy rchain dependencies, and deploy rdev use the following commands. These commands will:

1. Create several log files in bootstrap/log, which can be largely ignored.
2. clone the rchain repository
3. deploy rholang files from RChain and RDev
4. Create a master dictionary
5. Place references to RDev rholang functionality into the master dictionary under a key using the rholang filename
6. Generate a JSON file containing the URI of the master dictionary: src/networks/MasterURI.localhost.json
7. Create a restorable snapshot containing that can be restored with restore-snapshot bootstrap.
8. Create a restorable snapshot containing that can be restored with restore-snapshot rdev
9. Place the bootstrap rnode log file in bootstrap/log/run-rnode.log

cd bootstrap
./bootstrap
./deploy-all
./run-rnode
cd ..

dev interface installation

npm install

running dev interface

This command will bundle the RDev JavaScript, build the RDev web page, and open your browser to rdev.

npm start

snapshots

Restore a snapshot previously created with create-snapshot

cd bootstrap && restore-snapshot

After initial bootstrap and deploy-all, there will be two snapshots available: bootstrap and rdev

List snapshots available for restore

cd bootstrap
list-snapshot

Save a copy of the localhost rnode that can be restored at a later date

cd bootstrap  && create-snapshot

Command line deployment of rholang

Deploy the rholang file "test.rho"

cd bootstrap
./deploy ../test.rho

Propose the previously deployed rholang file "test.rho"

bootstrap/propose