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How to run?

• Make sure Parity is running on default settings.

• Install Redis, run redis-server with all default settings.

• Start the backend service:

  $ cd backend
  $ npm i
  $ npm start
  

• (Optional) Start the queue consumer service:

  $ cd backend
  $ npm run start:consumer
  

• Start the frontend dev server:

  $ cd frontend
  $ npm i
  $ npm start
  

• Open http://localhost:8080 in the browser.

Overview

Disclaimer: some relationships were skipped for simplicity.

           .----------------------.
           |                      |
           |    Queue Consumer    |
           |                      |
           '----------------------'
             ^             ^   |
             |             |   |
             |     Balance |   | Send queued TXs
  Read Queue |     updates |   | if balance is topped
             |  each block |   |
             |             |   v
  .------------.        .-------------------.             .~~~~~~~~~~.
  |            |        |                   |   MAGIC    (            )
  |   Redis    |        |    Parity Node    | <=======> (   Ethereum   )
  |            |        |                   |            (            )
  '------------'        '-------------------'             '~~~~~~~~~~'
             ^             |   ^
             |      Status |   |
 Queue TX w/ |     updates |   | Send TX w/
insufficient |  each block |   | sufficient
     balance |             |   | balance
             |             v   |
          .----------------------.
          |                      |
          |       Backend        |
          |                      |
          '----------------------'

Queue Consumer and Backend share code, but should be run as separate processes, ideally different machines in production.