Local Ceramic node

To run this, running a ceramic node is important.

Install ceramic cli

npm install -g @ceramicnetwork/cli

Run ceramic

ceramic daemon

Creating a ceramic datamodel

npm run create_model

Database

Database is handled with the help of prisma orm.

Apply migration

npx prisma migrate dev

To check the database, use the goodness of prisma studio

npx prisma studio

After running this command prisma studio opens in port 5555.

Env variables

Create a .env file in project root. Refer to below example for env variables:

PORT=9000
DID_KEY=743470467f09759cf83ca2c61a651a68e4067afddffaff0e918ccef55286bf88
DATABASE_URL=file:./dev.db

To create the DID_KEY, take help of glaze cli. Install glaze cli using following command.

npm install --global @glazed/cli

Then create the a DID

glaze did:create

Something like this will be printed

Created DID did:key:z6MkiTnTkbtkpLd7zk5Yfuq5C7EHeKQmPNPor26eqad2npmP with seed 6f38c7993a868d1787c2d57b5c4e500ca8cfc85ec984c2aa415414f055a40c8c

Take the seed portion, and set it as the env variable DID_KEY.

Run the application in development environment

npm run dev