Create A Cross-Platform Desktop DigiByte DGB Wallet With Angular And Electron

A few weeks back I had written an article titled, Send And Manage DigiByte DGB Coins With Node.js, which had explained how to interact with DigiByte coins via Node.js and the CLI. We saw how to keep track of a wallet, compare against the market value, and send DGB to other wallets. The catch here was that it was all CLI based and not particularly user friendly.

A popular solution towards adding a GUI to a Node.js application comes in the flavor of Electron. With Electron you’re essentially packaging a web application that can interact with native platform APIs.

Since I’m a fan of Angular, we’re going to see how to create a fancy DigiByte wallet using Electron, Node.js, and Angular.

Mine Bitcoin And Other Cryptocurrency Coins With A CPU Miner And Docker

So you’ve been doing a lot of research around the blockchain and the various cryptocurrencies. Don’t worry, I’ve been doing a lot of the same research. There is so much in the news and on social media around this subject, it would be a good idea to educate yourself.

When it comes to cryptocurrencies, there are a lot of people trying to mine it rather than buy it. Depending on the type of currency, it could be near impossible to mine or very easy. Take Bitcoin for example. Bitcoin is one of the most difficult coins to mine, while others such as DigiByte are much easier. That’s not to say the easier coins won’t become more difficult in the future.

So how do you get started with mining?

I use a Mac. If you’re a Mac owner and you try to find a mining tool online, you’re going to struggle because most are for Windows or Linux. We’re going to see how to leverage Docker to mine via a Linux container on any platform.

Generate Cold Storage Paper Wallets For Ripple XRP Coins With Angular

About a week ago I wrote about Ripple in a tutorial titled, Build a Ripple XRP Wallet for Android and iOS with Ionic Framework, which focused on mobile development as a followup to a cross-platform desktop application that I had written about before that.

There are many who would advise against storing sensitive wallet information on a computer or anything connected to the internet. As an alternative, people recommend printing your transaction signing information such as private keys and storing them on what’s called a paper wallet, destined for a locked safe in your home or the bank.

We’re going to see how to create a paper wallet for Ripple XRP coins using Angular and some packages provided by the Ripple development team.

Send And Manage DigiByte DGB Coins With Node.js

I’ve been spending a lot of time researching and watching the blockchain market because it is a very interesting subject matter. Not too long ago I had written an article titled, Create a Cross-Platform Desktop Ripple XRP Wallet with Vue.js and Electron, which focused on the Ripple, the banking network and cryptocurrency.

Ripple isn’t the only cryptocurrency that I’m following. I’m also following DigiByte, which targets digital payments and has the DGB coin. If you’re not familiar with DigiByte, the official wallet forces you to download around 12GB of data to synchronize with the network. It isn’t really appealing to anyone who just wants to sit on some DGB. The good news, is this can be avoided by building your own wallet and client.

We’re going to see how to build a DigiByte DGB client for storing, sending, and managing coins without having to synchronize with the network, using JavaScript and Node.js.

Build A Ripple XRP Wallet For Android And iOS With Ionic Framework

A few days ago I released, what turned out to be, a very popular article around developing a Ripple XRP wallet. It was titled, Create a Cross-Platform Desktop Ripple XRP Wallet with Vue.js and Electron, and it focused on cross-platform desktop application development. A popular request on Twitter was around developing a mobile Android and iOS wallet for Ripple XRP coins.

We’re going to see how to use Ionic Framework and Angular to create a Ripple XRP wallet for Android and iOS. Because our desktop application focused on the JavaScript stack, our mobile application will be able to recycle a lot of our code.

Create A Cross-Platform Desktop Ripple XRP Wallet With Vue.js And Electron

As you are probably aware, I’ve been interested in cryptocurrency and the blockchain lately. I haven’t necessarily been buying anything, but I’ve been doing a lot of watching as it has all been very interesting so far.

I decided, a few weeks ago, to purchase some Ripple (XRP) because it seems like it could do great things for the banking industry. When it came to keeping track of my XRP, there wasn’t really anything available. There is Ripple Wallet, but after having used it for a little bit, it seemed buggy. That got me thinking. What if I were to build my own wallet?

Ripple actually released a Node.js library called ripple-lib on GitHub which makes it very easy to interact with XRP. What makes things even better is that the cross-platform desktop application framework, Electron, uses Node.js.

We’re going to see how to create a cross-platform desktop application using Node.js, Vue.js, and Electron to keep track of our Ripple and how much our wallet is worth.