EtherCrowdfunding

A decentralized crowdfunding platform

The crowdfunding campaign has three main actors:

• the organizers, those who open the campaign
• the donors, those who donate to the campaign
• the beneficiaries, the receivers of the funds collected during the campaign.

Before you get started

In order to build and run this project you need to install some dependencies:

• NodeJs
• Truffle
• Ganache - (Optional but highly recommended) use this to setup your testnet

Build the project

If you have Truffle installed correctly just type truffle build in the root directory of the project

Migration

Create your testnet and configure it in truffle-config.js In the current version of the configuration file you can already find a network called migration:

migration: {
      host: "127.0.0.1",     // Localhost (default: none)
      port: 8545,            // Standard Ethereum port (default: none)
      network_id: "*",       // Any network (default: none)
    }

In case you want to use this configured network you can simply install Ganache and run a local test network on port 8545.

Before you start the migration, update the migration script migrations/1_initial_migration.js setting up the addresses of the organizers, the beneficiaries and the campaign duration. Thtat's it, these are the only required steps before of your first migration.

Now migrate the contract using the command: truffle migrate --network migration --reset

Tests

Inside the test/ folder you can find an automated test suite which attempts to prove and test some contract's properties. To run the test suite just use truffle test

Run the frontend (DAPP)

If you would like to run the DAPP fir of all you need to install lite-server and web3

npm install --save lite-server npm install --save web3

Then simply type in the root directory of the project npm run dev to start the server. The DAPP will be available at http://localhost:3000

How the contract works