circles-api

Offchain API service for Circles

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An offchain API service to safely store and resolve Circles user data from public adresses and find transitive transfer paths to send tokens within the trust graph.

Features

• Create and search off-chain data like transfer descriptions and user profiles
• Indexes and stores Circles trust network
• Calculate transitive transfer steps to send Circles

Requirements

• NodeJS environment (tested with v12 and v14)
• PostgreSQL database

• Redis

Usage

Check out the Dockerfile for running the circles-api on your server.

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Copy .env file for local development
cp .env.example .env

# Seed and migrate database
npm run db:migrate
npm run db:seed

# Run tests
npm run test
npm run test:watch

# Check code formatting
npm run lint

# Start local server and watch changes
npm run watch:all

# Build for production
npm run build

# Run production server
npm start
npm worker:start

License

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 AGPL-3.0