aduwillie / ad-blockx

A simple blockchain DAPP for hospital visit

BLOCKX

BlockX is a single platform which provides the blockchain as a service to various areas of implementation eg. health, insurance etc.

BLOCKX HEALTH

This is blockchain as a service deployed to specifically target the health service. Various interactions include:

• Get total number of hospitals on the chain
• Get the total number of patient visits recorded by every hospital on the chain
• Get the total number of patient visits recorded by individual hospitals on the chain
• Add (or register) hospital on the chain
• Record a patient visit on the chain

Dependencies

This project represents a simple DAPP without any complications. Business logic is written in Solidity (version 0.4.24) and frontend is written in plain JavaScript. Other dependencies include:

• Node v8
• npm (or yarn)
• Ganache (this is a local ethereum blockchain with 10 accounts to use)
• MetaMask
• Truffle

Installations

Nothing special to do here since every major dependencies is bundled as part of the application

Usage

To compile the smart contracts

npm run compile

To migrate onto a local blockchain (eg. Ganache). It might be helpful to set ganache settings to http://127.0.0.1:8545. If not, you need to ensure the config in truffle.js and truffle-config.js is updated.

npm run migrate:dev

To run a local simple static server of the frontend

npm run start:dev

To play with truffle console/develop environments

npm run dev
npm run dev:console

Testing

To run the test suite

npm run test