README.md

Cryptolx

Table of Contents

• Problem Statement
• Tech Stack Used
• Running Locally

Problem Statement

Today almost everyone is familiar with the name Blockchain, but still sometimes it is thought as the way of investment just like stocks.
To Solve this problem and encourage use of Blockchain in other areas, we thought to build a decentralized app where user will be able to buy/sell items using cryptocurrency(currently Ethereum).

Tech Stack Used

Blockchain:
- Smart contracts: Solidity
- Testing:         Ganache and mocha.
- Interaction:     Web3

Frontend:
- UI Library:      Reactjs
- Styling:         Semantic-UI

- Backend and database
- Firebase

Running Locally

• Setting variables in .env
  Create a file .env, copy example.env into .env. Replace values with your credentials.

  REACT_APP_API_KEY=""
  REACT_APP_AUTH_DOMAIN=""
  REACT_APP_PROJECT_ID="",
  REACT_APP_STORAGE_BUCKET=""
  REACT_APP_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=""
  REACT_APP_APP_ID=""
  

• Frontend part

  1. Go to Code on Github Desktop of this repository and copy its http link from there.
     
  2. Now Open your terminal.
     
  3. Navigate to any directory preferred by you through using cd command. Clone project there by git clone
     
  4. Type cd <name_of_project> then install packages using npm install

• Blockchain part

  1. Install metamask extension and set it up.