Kicking Off Building for Dash Incubator - 1
Anthony Campolo tests Dash Platform JavaScript SDK docs live, walking through examples, debugging issues, and noting improvements for developers.
Episode Description
Anthony Campolo walks through the Dash Platform JavaScript SDK documentation in a live coding session, testing examples, troubleshooting issues, and identifying areas for improvement.
Episode Summary
In this solo coding stream kicking off his work for the Dash Incubator, Anthony Campolo dives into the Dash Platform JavaScript SDK documentation to evaluate its current state and identify improvements. He begins with basic curl commands to test endpoints directly, then progresses to using the JavaScript SDK methods, encountering issues along the way with deprecated libraries like request, confusion between require and ESM syntax, and outdated Node.js version recommendations. Throughout the session, he highlights structural problems with the documentation being spread across multiple sites and GitHub organizations (dash-hive, dashpay, dash-evo), making it difficult to know which packages and examples are current. He works through methods like getBestBlockHash, getBlockHash, and getMnListDiff, using ChatGPT to help fix syntax errors and rewriting examples with node-fetch instead of deprecated alternatives. By the end, Anthony has a clearer picture of what needs updating and plans to consolidate the scattered documentation, eventually building toward integrating these examples into a React application in future streams.
Speakers
- Anthony Campolo
Chapters
00:00:00 - Stream Kickoff and Setup
Anthony introduces the stream, explaining he's broadcasting simultaneously across his personal Twitch and YouTube channels along with Dash's official channels. He references a previous appearance with Ryan and Amanda on the Dash channel where they discussed his upcoming work for the Dash Incubator, which will involve building JavaScript tools and examples.
He gets his streaming setup configured properly, ensuring he can see comments from viewers across platforms, and greets early arrivals to the stream. Anthony notes this will be a fairly off-the-cuff coding session rather than a polished presentation, setting expectations for an exploratory approach to the work ahead.
00:01:43 - JavaScript SDK Documentation State
Anthony begins examining the Dash documentation, particularly the JavaScript SDK, noting common JavaScript challenges around different Node versions and the require versus import dichotomy. He points out a specific example using the deprecated request library and discusses how node-fetch is being phased out in favor of native fetch in newer Node versions.
He navigates between different documentation sources, finding the dash.org developer portal docs, and explains his typical workflow for evaluating APIs. His approach starts with simple curl commands to verify endpoints work before moving to client libraries, ensuring each layer of abstraction can be debugged independently when problems arise.
00:04:09 - Working with Curl Commands and JSON RPC
Anthony demonstrates using curl commands to interact with the Dash testnet, sending POST requests with JSON-RPC formatted bodies. He explains the basic structure of JSON-RPC calls, including the method name, parameters, and ID fields, while acknowledging some uncertainty about what the ID field actually does.
He shares his earlier troubleshooting experience with TLS/SSL encryption errors that ChatGPT helped him resolve. Anthony provides context for viewers unfamiliar with blockchain development, mentioning his previous year working at QuickNode and offering his perspective that despite the recent crypto downturn, the technology has long-term promise based on historical cycles.
00:08:22 - Finding the Right SDK and GitHub Repositories
Anthony searches for the official Dash JavaScript SDK GitHub repository, encountering confusion between multiple organizations including dash-hive (Ryan's) and dashpay. He highlights a fundamental challenge with decentralized blockchain projects: documentation and code repositories are often scattered across many locations, making it unclear which are official and current.
He references a previous stream by Dan Tan that critiqued the Dash docs structurally, and emphasizes the importance of GitHub readmes staying synchronized with the actual published npm packages. Anthony stresses that without this alignment, developers face significant confusion about which package and version they should actually be using.
00:14:21 - Setting Up the First Project
Anthony begins building his project from scratch, walking through the setup steps that he feels are often left out of documentation but are crucial for newcomers. He emphasizes the importance of explicitly addressing whether to set type: module in package.json for ESM versus CommonJS.
He discusses Node version recommendations, criticizing the docs for suggesting Node 12 which is past long-term support. Anthony advocates for using ESM since it's the modern standard and integrates better with newer tools like Vite, especially when the goal is eventually building React applications. He uses pnpm and walks through initializing the project structure.
00:21:01 - Building the Tutorial Structure
Anthony explains his methodology of writing documentation as he codes, treating each project as both a learning exercise and a potential blog post or tutorial. This approach helps him concretize each step and provides better feedback for upstream documentation improvements.
He sets up the project's README with sections for resources and creates the initial example for getting the best block hash. Anthony continues advocating for ESM as the future-proof choice, discussing how the heat death of the universe might come before everyone fully migrates off require, but moving forward with new docs in ESM is still the right call.
00:27:31 - First Working SDK Example
Anthony installs the dash package and creates his first JavaScript file using the SDK. He demonstrates switching between require and ESM syntax by adding type: module to package.json and converting the import statements. The simple getBestBlockHash example successfully runs and returns a hash value.
He notes how clean the conversion process is when it works smoothly, while acknowledging this isn't always the case. The example structure becomes a template for further exploration, with Anthony planning to build up a collection of self-contained Node scripts that can each be run independently from the command line.
00:32:05 - Understanding Block Hash Methods
Anthony explores the getBestBlockHash method's documentation, learning that it returns the block hash of the chain tip. He discusses the basic concept of blockchains for less familiar viewers, explaining how blocks are added periodically containing recent transactions.
He builds out three different ways to interact with the same endpoint: a curl command, a direct fetch request, and the SDK method. This progression helps developers understand what's happening at each layer of abstraction. Anthony saves these examples in separate files so users can troubleshoot at whatever level they're comfortable with.
00:38:32 - Implementing Fetch Examples
Anthony works on creating a fetch-based example to replace the deprecated request library example in the docs. He addresses the version 2 requirement for node-fetch to work properly with ESM and notes that the previous TLS errors he encountered seem to have resolved themselves overnight.
He compares the output formats between the SDK method (which returns just the result) and the fetch approach (which returns the full JSON-RPC response object), then refactors the fetch example to destructure just the result for cleaner output. Anthony recommends Ryan should accept a PR updating the docs to use node-fetch instead of the deprecated request library.
00:46:52 - Tackling getBlockHash
Anthony moves on to the getBlockHash method, noting there's no JavaScript example provided in the docs at all, only a curl example. He sees this as an opportunity to contribute even more value by writing examples that don't yet exist.
He explores the concept of block height, discovering it represents how many blocks separate a given block from the first Dash block. After running into a parameter formatting issue, Anthony successfully gets the method working with the height value passed correctly as a parameter.
00:53:33 - Using ChatGPT for Debugging
When Anthony hits a syntax issue with his fetch implementation, he turns to ChatGPT for help fixing what he calls his "junior JavaScript mistakes." ChatGPT correctly identifies the need for JSON.stringify and provides a try-catch wrapper for better error handling.
Anthony reflects on how AI tools like ChatGPT are particularly valuable for junior and mid-level developers who need quick syntax fixes or basic bug solutions. He pushes back against developers who don't see ChatGPT's utility, suggesting they need to think more creatively about how to integrate it into their workflow for routine debugging tasks.
01:00:03 - Exploring gRPC and Endpoint Architecture
Anthony works through getMnListDiff and discovers the docs mention that most endpoints are migrating from JSON-RPC to gRPC. This raises questions about whether updating the JSON-RPC examples is still worthwhile if they'll be deprecated soon.
He learns that JSON-RPC currently exposes layer-one information while gRPC supports layer-two and event streaming. Anthony notes he'd need additional incentive to learn gRPC, joking that learning it should be paid work rather than something he picks up as a tangent. He focuses on understanding what client libraries (DAPI client, DAPI gRPC, JavaScript DAPI request) are appropriate for which use cases.
01:08:42 - Initializing the Dash Client Properly
Anthony refines his approach by creating a single client initialization file that can be exported and imported across multiple example scripts, avoiding redundant client setup. He discusses the wallet-related options like setting mnemonic to null for new wallet generation and offline mode for skipping chain sync.
He searches for TypeScript typings to understand all available SDK methods, exploring both the dash-evo and dashpay GitHub repositories. The exploration reveals just how scattered the relevant code is across multiple repos and packages, reinforcing his earlier complaints about the fragmented documentation ecosystem.
01:14:21 - Discovering Better Documentation
Anthony stumbles upon what he describes as the documentation page he should have started with from the beginning, containing a comprehensive reference of methods and capabilities. However, he notes the lack of syntax highlighting makes it less readable than it could be.
He continues exploring the relationships between dash, dash-evo, dashpay, and the wallet library, getting clarification from a viewer named Pete that the SDK contains the wallet functionality. Anthony appreciates the help understanding how all these pieces fit together as someone still learning the Dash ecosystem.
01:21:51 - Testing HTML Script Tag Example
Anthony attempts to run a single-page HTML example from the docs that uses a script tag to load the Dash library from unpkg. He encounters MIME type errors and finds the example doesn't work as documented, suggesting it should either be fixed or removed from the documentation.
He prefers examples like this when they work because they avoid build step complexity, but emphasizes that broken examples in docs are worse than no examples at all. Anthony makes a note to follow up on this issue when consolidating documentation improvements.
01:26:14 - Consolidating Documentation Vision
Anthony articulates his vision for documentation consolidation, arguing that the entire separate docs site shouldn't exist and everything should be unified under dashplatform.readme.io. Having two separate documentation sites with overlapping content creates maintenance burden and confusion for developers.
He acknowledges that his work might seem like endless bike-shedding to viewers expecting to see things actually built, but explains that systematic evaluation of all examples is necessary first. His plan involves identifying broken examples, deprecated dependencies, and missing JavaScript examples, then submitting comprehensive PRs to clean everything up.
01:32:05 - DAPI Client vs SDK Methods
Anthony discovers important distinctions between using client.core methods directly versus going through the DAPI client. He successfully runs getBestBlockHash through the DAPI client interface and explores the getStatus method, which returns extensive information about the chain, masternodes, and network state.
He gets clarification from viewer Pete that the documentation discrepancy is real and the existing docs need updating. Anthony confirms his understanding that the standalone DAPI client package mentioned in some examples is deprecated, and the current approach should be importing dash and accessing client methods through the unified SDK.
01:39:17 - Final Examples and Wrap-up
Anthony works through getBlockByHeight, encountering a buffer return value that needs conversion to a string. With help from a viewer suggesting toString(), he gets the method returning readable output, though notes there's still more work to do on properly formatting these responses.
He wraps up the stream noting he has a meeting coming up, thanks viewer Pete for helpful clarifications throughout, and outlines his plan for future streams. Anthony intends to continue evaluating documentation examples weekly before transitioning to building actual React frontends, with a "getting started" tutorial likely being his next major contribution to clean up the onboarding experience for new Dash developers.
Transcript
00:00:04 - Anthony Campolo
All right, hello, we are live.
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What's up everybody?
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My name is Anthony Campolo.
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I'm coming at you from four different places right now.
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I'm coming from my Twitch, YouTube, and
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Dashes Twitch and YouTube.
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So if people saw me on Monday, I was on the Dash channel with Ryan and Amanda, and we were talking about
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what I'm going to be kind of doing for the dash incubator.
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And it's going to be building out some cool JavaScript stuff.
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It's going to be fairly kind of like off the cuff coding stuff.
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And real quick, I'm just going to make sure.
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I'm actually coming in good.
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Yep, I can hear myself there.
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Great.
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All right.
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And I'm just going to have to make sure I position this so that I can see the comments.
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That's the only thing.
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So...
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Let me go ahead and, oh, let's see if I can screen share.
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Sweet.
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Okay, hello learner.
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What is up?
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You're the first guest on this fun new stream we'll be doing.
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Okay, that's probably pretty good.
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So,
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Great, I was actually playing around a bit with the dash docs and trying to get a feel for how they work and kind of what state they're in,
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especially in terms of the JavaScript SDK.
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So this is something that
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is always a challenge with JavaScript.
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You will frequently have different versions of node, different versions of require versus import, and a lot of confusion there.
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You also now have this problem with fetch, where you may be using an older fetch library.
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Like one of the examples in here is using request, which is something that I didn't really even know about.
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It's a deprecated fetch library that was not node fetch.
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So node fetch is like...
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I don't know if we can say deprecated or not, but it's something that people are now moving off of because fetch is just in node now.
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But I want to get to, it's not the docs I wanted, a couple of
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I have a couple different docs.
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I want the dash.org docs.
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And developers, developer portal.
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Okay, because here's where they give you a lot of the stuff I'll actually be doing.
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There's a couple things in here also that did not work.
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So a couple things that I kind of wanted to do.
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Eventually the point is going to be getting to actually building like React apps and stuff like that.
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But before you even do that, you want your JavaScript general stuff to work.
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So I usually go in a couple steps here.
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I start by just trying to get something to work with.
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It's just like a curl command.
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Let me just open up what we got here.
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It's all nice and big.
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Great, great, great.
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Okay.
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So for example,
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There's one curl command that I had for...
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Here we go.
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This is all on.
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Okay.
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So I like starting off like something here where you can just run a curl command and get a response back.
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This is like the simplest, most basic way to interact with an endpoint or an API, right?
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You hit a URL.
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Yes.
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Either get it or you post it usually.
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And an example like this, so this is a blockchain.
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How much you know about blockchain or not is going to depend on whether you're someone who is coming at this from the Dash channel or the AJC channel.
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Because most of my followers and friends and people who tend to watch my content are less blockchain oriented, even though I spent close to a year working at a blockchain company.
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But I actually really enjoyed it.
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ended up getting out of blockchain just because I got an opportunity at this company, Edgio.
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I wanted to do that instead, but I actually think the technology has a lot of promise, even though people think it's kind of quote unquote over, thanks to the whole blow up last year.
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But these things, they go in cycles like we had ups and downs in the past.
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And each time it came back up again, even higher than the time before it.
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So if history repeats itself, we will be here again in 2024, 25, 26, hard to say.
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But with this example here, so it's curl command.
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We're sending a post.
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We're sending a post to this endpoint.
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The testnets are a little interesting.
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I was having issues with them at first that ChatGPT helped me figure out because some sort of TLS SSL.
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Encryption thing that was throwing errors.
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If we find that in examples as we go, I'll kind of point it out.
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And then you set the header to JSON.
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And this is a JSON RPC, which is the way that a lot of developers interact with these blockchains.
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You have
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just like data that you post to an endpoint and then you specify a method.
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And then if there's like the specific JSON RPC API, if there's a version, these are the version.
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And then if there's any parameters, so.
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In this one, this is get best block hash.
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Not sure.
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Let's see what the ID differentials the same endpoint.
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Yes, I'm a little confused what the ID is for, but for
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Let's see.
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So, yeah.
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So for this one, get block hash.
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You set a parameter.
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And so this is like, what is the block hash you actually want to get back?
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Yeah, and so with any of these things, you have...
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Yo.
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I should have told you in about 15 minutes.
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All right, cool.
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We haven't missed much so far.
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But once you catch up to me, I will have some questions for you.
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And if you wanted to hop on, actually.
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Feel free to join and then just hit me up in the comments so I know and I can just add you to the stream.
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So what I was going to do is anytime I kind of want to figure out how to work with an endpoint and get to the state where I can actually like do stuff with it in a JavaScript project, I start with a curl command like this.
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And now with Dash, there is a Dash JavaScript library.
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And these client libraries are usually useful because they allow you to not have to worry about just making a straight up fetch request yourself.
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It'll kind of give you something nicer and more integrated to do it.
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Hey, what's up, Nikki T?
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I'll be curious if you find any of this stuff interesting, as I know you're not a very big blockchain developer, but I also know you're open-minded and like to learn, so that is a good thing.
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But, so I was saying, we usually have...
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The ability to bring in some sort of JavaScript library like so.
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You bring in dash and then you initialize a dash client and then you will just have like methods on it.
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And when I was doing this, I hit a couple weird things.
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First off, it's not entirely clear what version you should be on.
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Because if you go to...
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That's first off.
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That's not good.
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So is that just GitHub being down?
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So if you go to the, I want to go to the GitHub for it.
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There is a GitHub for it somewhere.
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GitHub dash SDK.
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Was deprecated.
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Okay, so this is not it at all.
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Here we go, this is what I want.
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Okay, so this is the dash hive.
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This is Ryan.
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So this is where, you can actually get the SDK.
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That's not it, actually.
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There's a link in the docs here.
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This is the link.
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There we go.
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Okay, here we go.
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This is what I want.
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So let me grab, start grabbing links, make sure I save these places.
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Okay.
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SDK.
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Okay, this is great.
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This is actually, I think, what I wasn't able to find yesterday.
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Or not that I wasn't able to find it, but...
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So there's this huge problem with general blockchain projects, which is that they're very decentralized.
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It's like part of the whole point.
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But sometimes you end up with a lot of different documentation and GitHub repos and GitHub organizations.
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And so like this is dash pay.
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So that's different from dash hive from what we were looking at before.
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And then with the docs, like I was saying, you know, you have these docs here.
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We also had the, there's like a different kind of docs here, docs-dash.org.
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And actually, Dan Tan did a stream.
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On this already.
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Docs roasting.
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So this is him kind of talking more structurally about the docs.
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And I imagine he gave a lot of that feedback.
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about making sure it's clear where you need to go to find things and then where said things are that you need to find.
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So as I was going through this last night, I was just trying out different examples and looking at different repos.
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And it wasn't always clear what was actually supported and official.
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And so these GitHub readmes right here that go along with the code you're actually installing on NPM, that's what's really important.
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I want to make sure it's at least syncing up there or else you're going to end up.
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A lot of weirdness happening because there was also, I can tell if it was supposed to be dash or dash JSA.
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That's because I was looking at one of the wrong packages before, but this is definitely the right stuff now.
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Okay, cool.
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So with this you have dash client methods, but what I had also done, I think I wanna, oh, I know what I wanna do.
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I wanna move this.
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This is my usual setup.
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Boom.
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Except this is, yeah, usually this is on the other side of the screen.
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That's why it's throwing me off.
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There we go.
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Okay.
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No, we're good.
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Okay, so there's straight up curl request, then there's using a client library, but the client library, if it doesn't work, it's good to be able to just make a straight up fetch request and know how to do that.
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So I have some examples.
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I'll write out that art like this where you just have a JavaScript function that runs a fetch method, feeds it the endpoint, and then sets the
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all of the body stuff just straight up in JSON here.
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And then you can console log the results.
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So that's kind of like the different ways you can start working with the endpoint and figure out how do you interact with it.
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And since this is all just through this JSON RPC, it's all pretty much the same.
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You have an endpoint that you're posting to and you're hitting it with some stuff.
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So let's take a look at, so I wanted to just basically go through a whole bunch of the examples that are in the docs and see where they break and make some notes.
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And then that'll be useful for the, any other people who happen to end up on these docs and may not know what's happening.
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There's also some places where
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it will probably make sense to just rewrite the example entirely, especially the ones that are using requests, because it's a clearly deprecated library.
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So that's not something that should probably be in use.
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This is what I'm talking about, this example right here.
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So this is using request.
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So request.
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HTTP request.
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So boom, right at the top.
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This package has been deprecated, published three years ago as of February 11, 2020, for even my boot camp a long time ago.
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So don't really want super old, deprecated libraries in your docs for obvious reasons.
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But thankfully, I will be able to rewrite it with a slightly less deprecated library because NodeFetch...
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Not necessarily deprecated.
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In fact, it's not deprecated at all.
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Let's see, update in the last two months.
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But version 2 docs are the ones that actually work, and version 2 is what actually works with ESM.
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So that's another thing.
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If you look at these examples, they're all written with require.
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Versus imports.
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And so this is where, again, you find these little examples, things can be really confusing
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because you may have some things in require, but you need to have the ESM, especially if the goal is to eventually get this into something that's gonna work in a React component because React,
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tends to be using ESM at this point.
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You can probably do require with React, I don't see.
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Why not?
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But you'd be way out of step with like the current versions of React, how everyone writes React, you know, everyone's gonna be using ESM in any current React example you see.
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So,
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The places I wanted to hit.
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So this is the very, very first example for JavaScript connected to dash platform.
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So let me.
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Close that guy.
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Okay, this is the curl request for this, I think.
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Hold on.
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No, that's back here.
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Okay, here it is.
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Do, do, do.
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Not sure what happened there.
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Okay.
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Anyway, let's just...
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So...
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Okay, there we go.
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Dash connect.
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So let me grab the...
00:20:01 - Anthony Campolo
So what I always do when I'm doing this kind of stuff is, and this is giving me one of the things with these streams is this will be more so me kind of working through just like how I actually do this and less me like building something before the stream and then presenting it to
00:20:17 - Anthony Campolo
people, which is what I do for a lot of my streams.
00:20:19 - Anthony Campolo
Usually this is giving more so me like, how do I go through docs and try examples and troubleshoot them and then potentially upstream changes if I think things are broken or unclear.
00:20:32 - Anthony Campolo
And then as I'm doing that, I'm basically writing docs as I'm doing it, both for myself so I can kind of make sense of what's actually happening as I'm doing it.
00:20:41 - Anthony Campolo
And it's more easy to give that feedback.
00:20:43 - Anthony Campolo
Or if I actually want it to end up as like a blog post, or if I'm trying to just build a new example, I'll still go through this project.
00:20:50 - Anthony Campolo
And so essentially everything I ever build has a tutorial attached to it just because it's like it's how I kind of think through this stuff.
00:20:56 - Anthony Campolo
It helps me concretize every single step.
00:21:01 - Anthony Campolo
So, yeah.
00:21:04 - Anthony Campolo
And then, you know, he's going to have an outline.
00:21:07 - Anthony Campolo
So let me just take what I've got right now already.
00:21:15 - Anthony Campolo
We'll run through kind of each example.
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Let's just have some.
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Usually resources will go at the end, but for, I'll keep at the top for now.
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Project X dash platform.
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Get best block hash.
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So basically the structure of what's happening right now is, I'll start by building a project from scratch and even like showing how do you actually even get a package.json and the dependencies into your project?
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Because you'll notice here, this example just says npm install dash.
00:23:22 - Anthony Campolo
Great.
00:23:23 - Anthony Campolo
And then we just all dash into what?
00:23:26 - Anthony Campolo
So.
00:23:26 - Anthony Campolo
So I think that this is a step that sometimes are left out, but it's kind of really important, especially if you're dealing with stuff like this.
00:23:35 - Anthony Campolo
If you're dealing with whether it's going to be required or import, you need to know, do you need to set type to module and all this stuff that goes along with that.
00:23:45 - Anthony Campolo
So since I think the goal should always be to end up at ESM because eventually in 20 years or right before the heat death of the universe, they will probably stop using require.
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And it's just better to be on ESM because then it'll be easier to integrate with newer tools like V.
00:24:03 - Anthony Campolo
And right now, I think this tells you to use Node 12.
00:24:09 - Anthony Campolo
You should not be using Node 12 if you're someone writing Node still.
00:24:13 - Anthony Campolo
I think that's considered off of long-term support by now, which means you don't really have a lot of good guarantees around.
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A lot of stuff.
00:24:24 - Anthony Campolo
I mean, I think they'll still fix security vulnerabilities.
00:24:29 - Anthony Campolo
But yeah, exactly.
00:24:31 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, security issue.
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So you want stuff to be on the newer versions of Node if you ever can.
00:24:37 - Anthony Campolo
I think I'll be running Node 16.
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Right now.
00:24:45 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, because Node 18 might have some breaking stuff, but if you notice, so I like to actually include all the steps.
00:24:54 - Anthony Campolo
So let's
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this.
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So I want to keep this around.
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Get rid of that.
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And then
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Then I'll run through these commands.
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So directory into it.
00:25:24 - Anthony Campolo
I'll be using PNPM for this.
00:25:28 - Anthony Campolo
Nikki T, since you are still around and watching, I'm curious, have you ever
00:25:33 - Anthony Campolo
written any code at all related to any of this blockchain web3 type stuff or even like had a sense of like how you would interact with it through like
00:25:44 - Anthony Campolo
json rpc methods and stuff like that because this is something that i did not know at all even though i've been following crypto
00:25:50 - Anthony Campolo
for many years.
00:25:51 - Anthony Campolo
It wasn't until I started working for QuickNode that I really learned like how to actually interact with a blockchain, what is, you know, the blockchain is currently running in production, how they work, because
00:26:04 - Anthony Campolo
QuickNode actually pretty cool.
00:26:09 - Anthony Campolo
Don't do that, Google.
00:26:11 - Anthony Campolo
Pretty cool company that hosts blockchain nodes for you.
00:26:15 - Anthony Campolo
So if you wanted to interact with Ethereum, you can see how to do that through all of their methods here.
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documentation is actually really fantastic.
00:26:29 - Anthony Campolo
So if you go to this one, you'll see they have similar type deal where got like a curl request here that is sending some data.
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And you can also see they have JavaScript examples as well.
00:26:56 - Anthony Campolo
And what was I saying?
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Doesn't matter.
00:27:06 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
00:27:07 - Anthony Campolo
Anyway.
00:27:08 - Anthony Campolo
So, MPM and knit, and then...
00:27:16 - Anthony Campolo
Pull this back over now.
00:27:24 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, let me clean up some tabs real quick.
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That's good.
00:27:33 - Anthony Campolo
That's good.
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Tutorials.
00:27:45 - Anthony Campolo
So.
00:27:48 - Anthony Campolo
Here
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I'm going to do is I'm going to grab the read me.
00:27:57 - Anthony Campolo
Whoops, this should be outside of here.
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I can have just one thing open.
00:28:25 - Anthony Campolo
I'm just going to do this from the terminal here.
00:28:30 - Anthony Campolo
And if we look here, I have my NPM, PMPM, auto-configured to do this.
00:28:38 - Anthony Campolo
When most people run this command, it will not do this.
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And that can be an issue if you want to.
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Use imports and so this can be changed to type common JS and
00:28:59 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, so that's where some of the challenges come into play.
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You have to kind of just play around and see whether you need to have the type module set or not.
00:29:09 - Anthony Campolo
And especially once you get into tools like V in the front end, then things are also a little bit different.
00:29:16 - Anthony Campolo
But now we want to npm add dash.
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So you see here, just dash, no JS.
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And then.
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If we look at this example and try and run it,
00:29:36 - Anthony Campolo
I've got it written right here, I think.
00:29:40 - Anthony Campolo
It's the same one.
00:29:41 - Anthony Campolo
Yep.
00:29:44 - Anthony Campolo
So also then, actually create the files as well.
00:29:50 - Anthony Campolo
So I think that's useful.
00:29:53 - Anthony Campolo
I can't tell if this works or not.
00:30:01 - Anthony Campolo
Ryan, have you caught up yet?
00:30:04 - Anthony Campolo
If so, let me know.
00:30:09 - Anthony Campolo
I think this ends up just hanging for a while.
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But for now, let's take these off.
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And run this.
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So I think if I'm more correctly, we're gonna get an error.
00:30:50 - Anthony Campolo
Oh wait, it worked.
00:30:52 - Anthony Campolo
Huh.
00:30:53 - Anthony Campolo
Sweet, that's good.
00:30:57 - Anthony Campolo
Cool, so if we see here, we got, this came out.
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So that's doing this part.
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Then new line.
00:31:22 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so let's try this then.
00:31:30 - Anthony Campolo
Great.
00:31:31 - Anthony Campolo
See, there you go.
00:31:31 - Anthony Campolo
So that's all you got to do to switch between require and ESM.
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You add type module to your package.json, and then you import blank from blank, whatever this was becomes that, whatever this was becomes that.
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There you go.
00:31:50 - Anthony Campolo
If only it were that simple all the time.
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So I'm just going to go ahead and delete that.
00:32:05 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, and then what it tells you to do next is you can connect to DevNet.
00:32:19 - Anthony Campolo
And you can connect via address or via seed.
00:32:29 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, I'm not sure this is really super duper relevant.
00:32:36 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, this is what I was trying to do before.
00:32:40 - Anthony Campolo
This is connected directly to Gabby.
00:32:51 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so I'm gonna not worry about that one.
00:32:57 - Anthony Campolo
There was that other curl command I had before.
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was, I think that was it.
00:33:08 - Anthony Campolo
This is a good one, though.
00:33:09 - Anthony Campolo
That's how I'll save this one.
00:33:24 - Anthony Campolo
That's basically get best block hash.
00:33:26 - Anthony Campolo
That's what we were doing in this example here.
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Get best block hash.
00:33:35 - Anthony Campolo
What does that mean?
00:33:36 - Anthony Campolo
Best block hash.
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Check the...
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API, DX, so...
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So this one, I think this is the page I'm going to end up on a lot, I think.
00:33:55 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so get this block hash returns the block hash of the chain tip ID or chain tip.
00:34:05 - Anthony Campolo
That would be ID twice.
00:34:08 - Anthony Campolo
So let's do this.
00:34:13 - Anthony Campolo
Let's close that for now.
00:34:24 - Anthony Campolo
Since this has no parameters, it's fairly straightforward in terms of how you interact with it.
00:34:32 - Anthony Campolo
You're not going to be passing anything into it.
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You just literally run that method, and then it's going to give you back the block hash of the chain tip.
00:34:42 - Anthony Campolo
Let's see if they define chain tip anywhere.
00:34:47 - Anthony Campolo
That would probably be in the dash core docs.
00:35:03 - Anthony Campolo
I guess that's just like the current block, like whatever the latest block is right now.
00:35:09 - Anthony Campolo
If you don't know, blockchain, you have blocks in a chain.
00:35:14 - Anthony Campolo
Whoa.
00:35:15 - Anthony Campolo
And you add a block every some amount of time.
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And every time you do that, it has all the transactions from the last 10, 15 minutes, some amount of time.
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So I'm just going to assume that's what it means until someone tells me otherwise.
00:35:36 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so I had the curl example, which was this, and that's this.
00:35:46 - Anthony Campolo
I'm going to do this by method.
00:35:51 - Anthony Campolo
Too so.
00:36:35 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, for now, I'm gonna ignore these different ways to connect.
00:36:41 - Anthony Campolo
This is not super important right now, I don't think.
00:37:00 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, cool.
00:37:09 - Anthony Campolo
So this will have get block hash, get best block hash, get block by height.
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So those are more of the other client methods.
00:37:26 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, cool.
00:37:27 - Anthony Campolo
Let's just keep going from where I am right now.
00:37:31 - Anthony Campolo
And let's delete this.
00:37:42 - Anthony Campolo
Keep that.
00:37:44 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
00:37:50 - Anthony Campolo
So what I'm doing now is I'm basically building up different files that will have self-contained node scripts.
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And then that can be run from the command line.
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So the idea being that you build up from, first you have a curl command.
00:38:05 - Anthony Campolo
And so that curl command, like literally anyone could just copy paste this sucker and run it in their terminal and should get a response back, which I should have.
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I'll put right after it.
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So grab that.
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And that this way, as you're going from the different steps, people can kind of make sure that everything's working.
00:38:32 - Anthony Campolo
So in this kind of like baseline case, you're just like, all right, am I able to even hit the endpoint and get something back?
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Because then as soon as you introduce JavaScript stuff and you're already in the wrong mode, okay, well, did they get their pirates.json right?
00:38:46 - Anthony Campolo
Was their version of Node on their own individual machine?
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And so the...
00:38:50 - Anthony Campolo
That's the stuff that then you need to kind of work through step by step.
00:38:58 - Anthony Campolo
Crab all of these.
00:39:02 - Anthony Campolo
Actually, no, those are fine where they are.
00:39:12 - Anthony Campolo
So I already have this example and that's already working.
00:39:20 - Anthony Campolo
Good.
00:39:28 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so this is what this should have been called, actually.
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And then for now, we'll call the other one.
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So let's do that one now.
00:40:14 - Anthony Campolo
And so I'm pretty sure this has been the case for a while.
00:40:18 - Anthony Campolo
So I think it's still the case that you need to specify you want version two of node fetch or else you get weird ESM issues.
00:40:27 - Anthony Campolo
And now if we take this stuff here, one, two,
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And then the thing that I had to ask ChatGPT to help me with was, let me show you this.
00:40:47 - Anthony Campolo
Let's see if this will still happen.
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If we don't have that and we just try running this.
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See what happens.
00:40:59 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
00:41:01 - Anthony Campolo
For some reason, there was something weird happening with the endpoint yesterday.
00:41:07 - Anthony Campolo
And there's all these like TLS stuff.
00:41:09 - Anthony Campolo
I'm aged because maybe there's a certificate that was out of date that was updated this morning.
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And so now everything's fixed.
00:41:16 - Anthony Campolo
Who knows?
00:41:19 - Anthony Campolo
That is nice, though, because...
00:41:23 - Anthony Campolo
That's a lot of extra stuff.
00:41:25 - Anthony Campolo
And you had to, I'd like bring in an HTTPS library.
00:41:28 - Anthony Campolo
So I'm curious that was an actual error or not, but anyway, so if we look at the output we were getting
00:41:41 - Anthony Campolo
in this example,
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It is...
00:41:47 - Anthony Campolo
Running this method and it just gives you the result.
00:41:54 - Anthony Campolo
Whereas in this fetch example, we're getting back something more similar to what we got back from the curl command.
00:42:02 - Anthony Campolo
It's just giving us back the JSON object.
00:42:05 - Anthony Campolo
So if we wanted to
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modify that.
00:42:11 - Anthony Campolo
I think we would want to do this.
00:42:29 - Anthony Campolo
You structure that.
00:42:31 - Anthony Campolo
Oh, no, that's it.
00:42:31 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah.
00:42:32 - Anthony Campolo
So if we do that, now we'll just get the straight up result part of the object instead of the whole thing.
00:42:49 - Anthony Campolo
Nice.
00:42:51 - Anthony Campolo
For now, I'm going to leave that stuff in there, but uncommented, just in case that error comes up again.
00:43:02 - Anthony Campolo
So if we see right here now, this is using node fetch instead of request.
00:43:08 - Anthony Campolo
So Ryan, I would recommend changing that so I can open a pull request to make some adjustments to the docs.
00:43:18 - Anthony Campolo
I also would really recommend having
00:43:21 - Anthony Campolo
steps of actually creating a project from scratch and then NPM and knitting and maybe address the issue of require versus import.
00:43:35 - Anthony Campolo
If you want to
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upgrade to using ESM, you'd want to do it kind of all at once.
00:43:42 - Anthony Campolo
You wouldn't want some of the docs to be in ESM, some to be in Node require syntax.
00:43:48 - Anthony Campolo
That would be, that could be a huge issue.
00:43:50 - Anthony Campolo
So that's why I get why a lot of people are, will still have docs now that are still using require just because everything is required.
00:43:58 - Anthony Campolo
They have to rewrite their entire docs to get ESM in there.
00:44:01 - Anthony Campolo
But ideally, we could get there.
00:44:05 - Anthony Campolo
But I would say first, update it to the more pressing concern is the deprecated require library that is being used, the deprecated request library.
00:44:21 - Anthony Campolo
So this is the thing you want to change first.
00:44:24 - Anthony Campolo
So I'll probably open a PR, but not use ESM node.
00:44:29 - Anthony Campolo
fetch but still use node fetch and then update the example because
00:44:40 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, this is like this stuff right here.
00:44:43 - Anthony Campolo
I'm like, this is where I get all confused.
00:44:48 - Anthony Campolo
Because you have response and body.
00:44:50 - Anthony Campolo
And it's like, this is all the fetch code.
00:44:54 - Anthony Campolo
I always see it looks like this now.
00:44:59 - Anthony Campolo
But obviously there's a million ways to do fetch.
00:45:02 - Anthony Campolo
Nicky T knows all about that.
00:45:04 - Anthony Campolo
He knows back when it was called Ajax.
00:45:08 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so this is pretty much all working pretty well right now.
00:45:33 - Anthony Campolo
adds a space automatically.
00:45:40 - Anthony Campolo
But I think I do want to actually...
00:45:47 - Anthony Campolo
That's all good, right?
00:45:50 - Anthony Campolo
I've done the same.
00:45:51 - Anthony Campolo
So let's do...
00:46:52 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, yeah, I agree.
00:46:54 - Anthony Campolo
It's always good to just go on a stream.
00:46:58 - Anthony Campolo
We'll see.
00:47:00 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, because I want to have, so if I'm going to open a PR, it's better if I can update a lot of examples all at once.
00:47:10 - Anthony Campolo
All right, so we got get best block hash and then get block hash.
00:47:18 - Anthony Campolo
So let's do that now.
00:47:42 - Anthony Campolo
So for this one, there actually isn't a JavaScript example at all.
00:47:47 - Anthony Campolo
So.
00:47:51 - Anthony Campolo
That's interesting.
00:47:54 - Anthony Campolo
That would be even more useful for you if I wrote you examples you didn't even have.
00:48:09 - Anthony Campolo
Did it work even though?
00:48:10 - Anthony Campolo
Hold on, why is it yelling at me right now?
00:48:33 - Anthony Campolo
Reason the colors are off but look like it actually worked so
00:48:54 - Anthony Campolo
So this is doing block hash for the given height.
00:48:58 - Anthony Campolo
God bless, man.
00:48:58 - Anthony Campolo
Right, fire around, Nicky.
00:49:10 - Anthony Campolo
For the given heights.
00:49:21 - Anthony Campolo
What is the height?
00:49:22 - Anthony Campolo
The block height.
00:49:39 - Anthony Campolo
I only addressed my block height.
00:49:41 - Anthony Campolo
The blocks between them and the first dash block.
00:49:43 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so it's how far away is the block from the first dash block.
00:49:50 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, that makes sense.
00:49:52 - Anthony Campolo
So it's just counting up as the each block.
00:49:55 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, yeah, great.
00:49:57 - Anthony Campolo
This is part of the thing with like, blockchains all have their own names for all this stuff.
00:50:04 - Anthony Campolo
So this was get block hash.
00:50:09 - Anthony Campolo
This I want to have a...
00:50:39 - Anthony Campolo
And now I can just kind of take most of what I have before.
00:50:46 - Anthony Campolo
And just change the...
00:50:49 - Anthony Campolo
Data in the body.
00:50:51 - Anthony Campolo
So let's do,
00:51:21 - Anthony Campolo
Change this part.
00:51:29 - Anthony Campolo
It's going to be.
00:51:34 - Anthony Campolo
And that's going to be params.
00:51:37 - Anthony Campolo
So this work.
00:51:40 - Anthony Campolo
Interesting.
00:51:51 - Anthony Campolo
Oh, yeah, that's right.
00:51:51 - Anthony Campolo
Mickey T's got his own stream.
00:51:54 - Anthony Campolo
So, we have Prams.
00:51:59 - Anthony Campolo
And then in there, we're gonna have another object.
00:52:18 - Anthony Campolo
Where sometimes.
00:52:21 - Anthony Campolo
Plot.
00:52:23 - Anthony Campolo
I think that should be it.
00:52:38 - Anthony Campolo
It happens.
00:52:48 - Anthony Campolo
Wait, I gotta actually put it in the file.
00:53:05 - Anthony Campolo
Why is it get a festival?
00:53:07 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, that's...
00:53:23 - Anthony Campolo
I'm not surprised.
00:53:31 - Anthony Campolo
So I messed something up here.
00:53:33 - Anthony Campolo
And this is where GPT can come in handy.
00:53:39 - Anthony Campolo
Helps me fix my junior JavaScript mistakes.
00:53:42 - Anthony Campolo
All right.
00:53:43 - Anthony Campolo
So I have this code.
00:54:18 - Anthony Campolo
And that takes a second.
00:54:20 - Anthony Campolo
Answer.
00:54:21 - Anthony Campolo
And now I know basically what the issue is.
00:54:24 - Anthony Campolo
I just want to shortcut straight to the answer.
00:54:28 - Anthony Campolo
Let's close some of this stuff.
00:54:36 - Anthony Campolo
That's not.
00:55:12 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so sweet.
00:55:14 - Anthony Campolo
So it's going to just throw in JSON.stringify for me.
00:55:17 - Anthony Campolo
Nice.
00:55:19 - Anthony Campolo
I had to check to make sure HPC was lost.
00:55:21 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
00:55:22 - Anthony Campolo
So you can give me a try catch.
00:55:24 - Anthony Campolo
It's incredible.
00:55:30 - Anthony Campolo
And the server is definitely returning a JSON response.
00:55:35 - Anthony Campolo
Cool, cool, cool, cool.
00:55:49 - Anthony Campolo
This is the future.
00:55:52 - Anthony Campolo
Oh, my God.
00:55:56 - Anthony Campolo
This is why I keep saying, like, some developers don't really see how chat GBT could be useful to them, which I would first say you need to think a little more creatively about it.
00:56:08 - Anthony Campolo
But for junior devs or even people who are kind of like in the middle, I guess, like me, who just want to fix basic errors that they should know how to fix.
00:56:18 - Anthony Campolo
Maybe either don't like quite have like some syntax on hand or there's like something that they would have to then Google to look up to find out fixing like one kind of small bug that like through experience you'll be able to very easily do.
00:56:31 - Anthony Campolo
Just chat to you, but you can just give you the answer, which is really incredible.
00:56:39 - Anthony Campolo
I should actually take that last example and do the same thing.
00:56:42 - Anthony Campolo
Have it give me nice try catch and all that.
00:56:46 - Anthony Campolo
So this was here.
00:56:49 - Anthony Campolo
Oops, that's not what I wanted to do.
00:57:03 - Anthony Campolo
Actually, it's giving me a, it's still giving me an error.
00:57:07 - Anthony Campolo
Must be an integer.
00:57:09 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, that one I can fix on my own.
00:57:20 - Anthony Campolo
So that was because we had quotes around the one in height, which was parsing it into a string.
00:57:43 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, cool.
00:57:45 - Anthony Campolo
So these are the examples that I'll be able to add to the docs because you don't have a JavaScript example at all here.
00:57:55 - Anthony Campolo
So let's see how many are there on this page.
00:58:02 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah.
00:58:04 - Anthony Campolo
One, two, three.
00:58:11 - Anthony Campolo
There are no recently deprecated.
00:58:14 - Anthony Campolo
Cool.
00:58:18 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so that can't be all the RPC methods, can it be?
00:58:34 - Anthony Campolo
So this is GRPC, which I sure don't know nothing about.
00:58:40 - Anthony Campolo
And we'll not mess around with at all, probably.
00:58:49 - Anthony Campolo
I just feel like there should be way more methods.
00:58:54 - Anthony Campolo
Next here we have like get block, get transaction, stuff like that.
00:58:59 - Anthony Campolo
So maybe it is, there's more methods.
00:59:01 - Anthony Campolo
This just isn't like, this is detail endpoint reference.
00:59:05 - Anthony Campolo
So here we go.
00:59:08 - Anthony Campolo
That's all I think.
00:59:11 - Anthony Campolo
Nope, that's just JSON RPC.
00:59:28 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, well, either way, there's three examples on here.
00:59:33 - Anthony Campolo
So I will, this one I would recommend, I'll update that one.
00:59:39 - Anthony Campolo
And then I'll add JavaScript examples here and here.
00:59:45 - Anthony Campolo
So let's go to the next one.
00:59:57 - Anthony Campolo
We already got get block hash.
01:00:03 - Anthony Campolo
So get master node, got to change that name, list diff for the provided block hashes.
01:00:13 - Anthony Campolo
Cool.
01:00:15 - Anthony Campolo
So.
01:00:19 - Anthony Campolo
Let me make sure my readme is in sync with all my files.
01:00:27 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, cool.
01:00:36 - Anthony Campolo
There we go.
01:01:00 - Anthony Campolo
See if this curl works.
01:01:08 - Anthony Campolo
Looks like it did.
01:01:11 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah.
01:01:13 - Anthony Campolo
Cool.
01:01:14 - Anthony Campolo
That's a big response.
01:01:17 - Anthony Campolo
Let's see what's going on here.
01:01:58 - Anthony Campolo
Most of all of our BSM points from Jason.
01:02:01 - Anthony Campolo
Interesting.
01:02:02 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:02:03 - Anthony Campolo
So, well then, so what's going to happen with the JavaScript client libraries and stuff?
01:02:10 - Anthony Campolo
Is that going to just be like an internal implementation change?
01:02:20 - Anthony Campolo
Ultimately, it's not going to matter a whole lot for what I'm doing since it's eventually going to end up in React.
01:02:28 - Anthony Campolo
This is just me trying to understand how the endpoint works in a way that makes sense to me.
01:02:33 - Anthony Campolo
And I wouldn't know how to just mess around with gRPC.
01:02:39 - Anthony Campolo
If I have to learn gRPC, then you can pay me to learn gRPC as opposed to...
01:02:45 - Anthony Campolo
I was like, you pay me for building this stuff and I learn it in the process.
01:02:58 - Anthony Campolo
I'll just go with JSON for that.
01:03:13 - Anthony Campolo
Do this.
01:03:22 - Anthony Campolo
Check that in just a second.
01:03:39 - Anthony Campolo
See some of that in the menu above JSON and the docs hierarchy.
01:03:42 - Anthony Campolo
So this one.
01:03:44 - Anthony Campolo
Currently revised two types of endpoints.
01:03:47 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so JSON RPC exposes layer one information while GRPC support layer two as well as streaming of events.
01:03:55 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, there you go.
01:03:56 - Anthony Campolo
Remaining endpoints will be migrated to your upcoming future release.
01:04:01 - Anthony Campolo
Interesting.
01:04:02 - Anthony Campolo
So these are the layer one endpoints, like so.
01:04:09 - Anthony Campolo
And then these are the core gRPC services.
01:04:16 - Anthony Campolo
Hello, hello.
01:04:19 - Anthony Campolo
How is it going?
01:04:21 - Anthony Campolo
So then these are happening here.
01:04:27 - Anthony Campolo
So you'll need to use
01:04:32 - Anthony Campolo
the DAPI client or DAPI gRPC, JavaScript DAPI request.
01:04:40 - Anthony Campolo
Interesting, interesting.
01:04:43 - Anthony Campolo
So I guess then my question is, what's the difference between JavaScript, DAPI client, and DAPI gRPC?
01:04:50 - Anthony Campolo
Is this related to
01:04:53 - Anthony Campolo
the JSON RPC.
01:04:55 - Anthony Campolo
And does that mean this will be deprecated too?
01:04:59 - Anthony Campolo
Or is this good?
01:05:00 - Anthony Campolo
Because if so, then this is what I should be using right now.
01:05:03 - Anthony Campolo
If this is what's not going to be deprecated.
01:05:10 - Anthony Campolo
Let me try doing this one, see what happens.
01:05:17 - Anthony Campolo
So this is get block by height.
01:05:20 - Anthony Campolo
You only need dash SDK.
01:05:22 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:05:24 - Anthony Campolo
So I guess we just need more examples with the dash SDK because I want just something like this, the dash and 10 package.
01:05:35 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, so I want...
01:05:37 - Anthony Campolo
A reference of all of the methods in the dash SDK dash JavaScript SDK.
01:05:45 - Anthony Campolo
So that was one that was here.
01:05:49 - Anthony Campolo
So.
01:05:52 - Anthony Campolo
Let's see what's going on here.
01:05:54 - Anthony Campolo
So we got these guys.
01:06:00 - Anthony Campolo
Yes, this is all the other stuff.
01:06:06 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so I guess this is what's handling whether it's using the JSON RPC or the gRPC stuff.
01:06:13 - Anthony Campolo
So there's a touch of typings in the platform.
01:06:17 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah.
01:06:19 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:06:31 - Anthony Campolo
So I guess my question is, is this stuff somewhere in here?
01:06:39 - Anthony Campolo
Let's see.
01:07:10 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so I know that I ended up creating a wallet.
01:07:15 - Anthony Campolo
So let me just make sure I don't.
01:07:20 - Anthony Campolo
Lose the thread here though.
01:07:23 - Anthony Campolo
These are all the examples that needed updating.
01:07:27 - Anthony Campolo
And let's see, so I had that one.
01:07:31 - Anthony Campolo
So what's going on here?
01:07:33 - Anthony Campolo
So this was
01:07:39 - Anthony Campolo
a list diff for the provided block hashes.
01:07:43 - Anthony Campolo
Got it.
01:07:44 - Anthony Campolo
So the curl request, this was the curl request itself.
01:07:55 - Anthony Campolo
And we're specifying the base block hash and then the block hash we want to diff against.
01:08:01 - Anthony Campolo
And then it's giving us...
01:08:07 - Anthony Campolo
List here of transaction hash confirmed hash pub key operator voting address
01:08:19 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:08:22 - Anthony Campolo
Cool.
01:08:23 - Anthony Campolo
Interesting.
01:08:26 - Anthony Campolo
And then we needed, okay, so I guess then my question is, if this is gonna be deprecated, does it matter whether I update the examples or not?
01:08:34 - Anthony Campolo
Like deprecated in the next month, year, 10 years, like,
01:08:42 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, I don't know.
01:08:44 - Anthony Campolo
But it sounds like we want to just stick to the dash client here.
01:08:49 - Anthony Campolo
So let's get into.
01:08:52 - Anthony Campolo
How those are going to work.
01:08:54 - Anthony Campolo
So,
01:08:59 - Anthony Campolo
Let's do this.
01:09:04 - Anthony Campolo
What I like to do is create just a single, initialize a single client and then export it and then import because with this example here, we're seeing the whole thing in one file, which is nice.
01:09:18 - Anthony Campolo
That's kind of what I would expect anyway, but I mean, I don't want to have different files.
01:09:24 - Anthony Campolo
With different examples showing different SDK methods.
01:09:28 - Anthony Campolo
And then you can avoid having to initialize a client each time for each script.
01:09:40 - Anthony Campolo
here and then this stuff.
01:09:46 - Anthony Campolo
Boom.
01:09:49 - Anthony Campolo
Things happening here that I want some notes on.
01:09:55 - Anthony Campolo
So this is just from the comments.
01:09:58 - Anthony Campolo
So setting new mod to null indicates you want a new wallet to be generated.
01:10:02 - Anthony Campolo
And then setting offline mode to true indicates you don't want to sync the chain.
01:10:12 - Anthony Campolo
And then we're going to have a...
01:10:16 - Anthony Campolo
Wallet method.
01:10:23 - Anthony Campolo
This is basically this example here.
01:10:34 - Anthony Campolo
This is going to do a couple things as we have get wallet account, export wallet, and get unused address.
01:10:44 - Anthony Campolo
So let me see if I can find the...
01:10:49 - Anthony Campolo
TypeScript typings.
01:11:03 - Anthony Campolo
So this is all the stuff that we had when I was just in here.
01:11:35 - Anthony Campolo
Dash platform is currently available on the Dash testnet only.
01:11:40 - Anthony Campolo
How long is that going to be the case?
01:11:47 - Anthony Campolo
Because eventually you won't be able to work with main net rolls.
01:11:50 - Anthony Campolo
You're not really working with real money.
01:11:54 - Anthony Campolo
This is using Wasm.
01:11:56 - Anthony Campolo
Look at that.
01:12:05 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:12:15 - Anthony Campolo
Back to the package.
01:12:18 - Anthony Campolo
Might have been in there somewhere.
01:12:25 - Anthony Campolo
Tests.
01:12:42 - Anthony Campolo
Probably easier if I just clone this down, but for now I'm just gonna keep popping a bit just to see.
01:12:49 - Anthony Campolo
In here.
01:12:57 - Anthony Campolo
Interesting.
01:12:58 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:13:02 - Anthony Campolo
So this would be like get contract.
01:13:22 - Anthony Campolo
Interesting.
01:13:23 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:13:24 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, so if there's not currently just a reference of all of the JavaScript methods in the dash SDK, that's the thing you really want, and that there should be a page for somewhere.
01:13:40 - Anthony Campolo
Otherwise,
01:13:42 - Anthony Campolo
You kind of just have to go find examples and see what's available and then start pulling examples and make them work for your use case.
01:13:51 - Anthony Campolo
So it's more extensive documentation here.
01:13:53 - Anthony Campolo
Ah, look at this.
01:13:57 - Anthony Campolo
A different separate page entirely with important documentation on it.
01:14:01 - Anthony Campolo
Great, okay, so this is probably where I should have started with, honestly.
01:14:06 - Anthony Campolo
No syntax highlighting, so that is not super tight.
01:14:11 - Anthony Campolo
I'm sorry, I should move this thing to a Pintaki source site for you.
01:14:15 - Anthony Campolo
Be quite a bit nicer.
01:14:18 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, yeah, this is, wow, this is,
01:14:21 - Anthony Campolo
Exactly where I should have been from the start.
01:14:23 - Anthony Campolo
This has basically all the stuff I want.
01:14:26 - Anthony Campolo
There's even a wallet library.
01:14:31 - Anthony Campolo
So that'd be a question, should I use the wallet library or not?
01:14:35 - Anthony Campolo
Is the wallet library important?
01:14:37 - Anthony Campolo
And what is dash EVO?
01:14:38 - Anthony Campolo
Now this is a whole nother place now.
01:14:42 - Anthony Campolo
I see a big deprecated word somewhere.
01:14:47 - Anthony Campolo
I have it archived as active film.
01:14:49 - Anthony Campolo
It shifted to here.
01:14:51 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:14:56 - Anthony Campolo
So does that just mean that?
01:15:00 - Anthony Campolo
Things like, where was I?
01:15:08 - Anthony Campolo
So is there still a wallet library, but in dash pay?
01:15:15 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, right.
01:15:16 - Anthony Campolo
So.
01:15:19 - Anthony Campolo
I mean, everything got moved from that repository to the other, or did they just start building new stuff in DashPay?
01:15:46 - Anthony Campolo
It looks like.
01:15:48 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, here we go.
01:15:51 - Anthony Campolo
Great, great, great, great.
01:15:55 - Anthony Campolo
So we're still npm installing it from here though.
01:15:59 - Anthony Campolo
So does that mean, let's look at what I wanna do.
01:16:07 - Anthony Campolo
Just dash.
01:16:09 - Anthony Campolo
Dash, dash.
01:16:10 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, hold on.
01:16:13 - Anthony Campolo
Where was...
01:16:16 - Anthony Campolo
NPM library.
01:16:25 - Anthony Campolo
Let's do this.
01:16:41 - Anthony Campolo
I guess you just want the NPM.
01:17:07 - Anthony Campolo
What is the name of the new NPM location?
01:17:12 - Anthony Campolo
If dash or is the idea that dash EVO stays on NPM, but the GitHub migrated off of it.
01:17:22 - Anthony Campolo
I don't know.
01:17:29 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, I'm just going to keep following the examples then and not worry about it too much.
01:17:36 - Anthony Campolo
So let's go back to here.
01:17:40 - Anthony Campolo
So this now.
01:17:44 - Anthony Campolo
We're going to have a lot, a lot more code examples, it looks like.
01:18:00 - Anthony Campolo
SDK contains wallet.
01:18:01 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:18:02 - Anthony Campolo
Gotcha.
01:18:02 - Anthony Campolo
Makes sense.
01:18:05 - Anthony Campolo
Thank you for being here and explaining things to me.
01:18:10 - Anthony Campolo
I am a Dash noob still, and so I'm just kind of playing around, figuring out how all this stuff works.
01:18:18 - Anthony Campolo
A whole lot of stuff in here.
01:18:30 - Anthony Campolo
So let's take a look.
01:18:31 - Anthony Campolo
I think just creating a wallet would be the thing to do.
01:18:37 - Anthony Campolo
Let's see.
01:18:38 - Anthony Campolo
Actually, let's just go through the top, see what we hit.
01:18:52 - Anthony Campolo
Here's the quick start.
01:18:55 - Anthony Campolo
See an example usage here.
01:18:57 - Anthony Campolo
Oh, dead like.
01:19:04 - Anthony Campolo
So that's because we're here.
01:19:18 - Anthony Campolo
I want to end up here and I want to get to examples web.
01:19:27 - Anthony Campolo
And then web usage.
01:19:30 - Anthony Campolo
So that link to this link.
01:19:39 - Anthony Campolo
Does this have a button to...
01:19:44 - Anthony Campolo
Open a PR.
01:19:45 - Anthony Campolo
Nope.
01:19:47 - Anthony Campolo
Put it on go.
01:19:48 - Anthony Campolo
All packs just failing.
01:19:53 - Anthony Campolo
Cool, cool, cool.
01:20:01 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, well it looks like this is where I would open the PR.
01:20:20 - Anthony Campolo
SDK app client.
01:20:32 - Anthony Campolo
Happy client.
01:20:38 - Anthony Campolo
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
01:20:40 - Anthony Campolo
Here.
01:20:42 - Anthony Campolo
And that's, well, that's off.
01:20:46 - Anthony Campolo
Yep.
01:21:51 - Anthony Campolo
This example here they're showing you, it's just a single HTML page.
01:21:56 - Anthony Campolo
It's kind of funny.
01:21:59 - Anthony Campolo
I'll see if this works.
01:22:06 - Anthony Campolo
We like examples like this though, because you don't have to worry about all the build step stuff.
01:22:13 - Anthony Campolo
You just throw in a script tag and hopefully it works.
01:22:26 - Anthony Campolo
There's no body.
01:22:30 - Anthony Campolo
Just gonna console log some stuff.
01:22:34 - Anthony Campolo
We can run this with live server.
01:22:42 - Anthony Campolo
My VS code, so all my extensions are not on right now.
01:22:54 - Anthony Campolo
And then there should be this.
01:22:56 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:22:58 - Anthony Campolo
Refuse to execute scripts because its mime type is not executable and strict mime type checking is enabled.
01:23:08 - Anthony Campolo
I think that might be.
01:23:13 - Anthony Campolo
Not yet.
01:23:17 - Anthony Campolo
Not defined.
01:23:26 - Anthony Campolo
This is not defined.
01:23:28 - Anthony Campolo
So I'm not importing it.
01:23:59 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, yeah, I just want to see this because the reason why I want to check it says the example is linked to this from the docs.
01:24:07 - Anthony Campolo
So you want to either make sure it works or yeah, exactly.
01:24:12 - Anthony Campolo
So if it doesn't work on unpackage, then it shouldn't be in the docs as an example here.
01:24:17 - Anthony Campolo
So this should just be removed then if that's the case.
01:24:24 - Anthony Campolo
Anyway, okay, so I probably shouldn't mess around with that then.
01:24:29 - Anthony Campolo
Leave that here just for now.
01:24:33 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so if we go back here.
01:24:41 - Anthony Campolo
This is going to initialize the client.
01:24:48 - Anthony Campolo
So that was what I had.
01:24:52 - Anthony Campolo
I had a file.
01:24:57 - Anthony Campolo
Right here.
01:24:58 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:25:10 - Anthony Campolo
So it looks like, right, actually this is the Dappy client examples.
01:25:17 - Anthony Campolo
Still a little bit confused about what's the difference between the DAPI client and not.
01:25:24 - Anthony Campolo
And I'm not sure if I should be saying that DAPI or pronounce it some other way.
01:25:34 - Anthony Campolo
into the SDK methods for interacting with all that stuff.
01:25:37 - Anthony Campolo
I'll also provide direct access to the client methods.
01:25:51 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, interesting.
01:25:53 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so these were the, this is one of the examples I was getting to.
01:26:02 - Anthony Campolo
That's the thing is that the requires or demos, that's probably updated to just do this.
01:26:27 - Anthony Campolo
So first off, I never checked whether this worked or not.
01:26:41 - Anthony Campolo
Dash Darks or Dark Forest right now.
01:26:43 - Anthony Campolo
That's the reason I have you guys.
01:26:44 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, great.
01:26:44 - Anthony Campolo
Well, I'm glad that this is useful then because I do enjoy doing this.
01:26:49 - Anthony Campolo
But it can be, like, frustrating for people who want to see something actually get built.
01:26:54 - Anthony Campolo
It's just, like, seems like endless bike shedding.
01:26:56 - Anthony Campolo
But mostly I just need to basically go through.
01:27:00 - Anthony Campolo
All the examples and then just try and run them, see whether they work or not, and then figure out which ones are broken, which ones aren't, which ones maybe work, but are using things that are kind of deprecated and shouldn't be.
01:27:12 - Anthony Campolo
And then you can kind of get them all into a nice place.
01:27:15 - Anthony Campolo
The thing is though is,
01:27:16 - Anthony Campolo
I feel like this whole site shouldn't really exist.
01:27:20 - Anthony Campolo
This should all be contained within the dash platform.remy.io.
01:27:24 - Anthony Campolo
You should get as many things as you possibly can into this one, especially if you're coming to it from dash.org.
01:27:31 - Anthony Campolo
Because it just doesn't really make sense to have people hop off to this other one with...
01:27:36 - Anthony Campolo
No syntax highlighting and stuff's like super deprecated.
01:27:39 - Anthony Campolo
And then you're going to have to like keep this up to date.
01:27:42 - Anthony Campolo
with the other stuff.
01:27:43 - Anthony Campolo
So I would really recommend just getting rid of this entirely.
01:27:47 - Anthony Campolo
And moving everything you can into here.
01:27:54 - Anthony Campolo
So let's see.
01:27:56 - Anthony Campolo
So I want to actually try these examples in here.
01:28:01 - Anthony Campolo
So let's just start with this one.
01:28:07 - Anthony Campolo
I'm actually not going to mess around with.
01:28:11 - Anthony Campolo
I'm actually going to get that semi-cold in there.
01:28:28 - Anthony Campolo
Let's see if this works.
01:28:30 - Anthony Campolo
So this will be get best block hash.
01:28:39 - Anthony Campolo
Point.
01:29:10 - Anthony Campolo
It might be that or it might be this.
01:29:14 - Anthony Campolo
Or it might be that.
01:29:18 - Anthony Campolo
Let's see, where's the other one?
01:29:21 - Anthony Campolo
Dash import, dash hash.
01:29:31 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so it's gonna be one of these four.
01:29:37 - Anthony Campolo
Maybe one's gonna work.
01:29:39 - Anthony Campolo
So let's start with, cause I'm curious,
01:29:46 - Anthony Campolo
It'll probably be...
01:29:49 - Anthony Campolo
Or maybe it would actually be that.
01:29:53 - Anthony Campolo
It's all just in this one bash NPM.
01:30:06 - Anthony Campolo
So let's start with this one.
01:30:17 - Anthony Campolo
Block hash dappy.
01:30:20 - Anthony Campolo
I gotta create that one.
01:30:54 - Anthony Campolo
And we haven't installed that.
01:30:55 - Anthony Campolo
So before I start, I'm installing stuff.
01:31:13 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so that makes sense.
01:31:14 - Anthony Campolo
That makes sense.
01:31:16 - Anthony Campolo
So I think I might need to just install this unless something about it.
01:31:26 - Anthony Campolo
So, ah, this is what I need to do.
01:31:29 - Anthony Campolo
I need to do the dash dot client.
01:31:33 - Anthony Campolo
Then I can do these things, I think.
01:31:45 - Anthony Campolo
This says get.
01:31:48 - Anthony Campolo
Have a client, whereas this is .core, best block hash, essentially, and it provides you with dash network players, classic dash, blockchain, and platform.
01:32:05 - Anthony Campolo
Interesting.
01:32:07 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:32:11 - Anthony Campolo
Just talking with Tabby House.
01:32:12 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:32:13 - Anthony Campolo
Gotcha.
01:32:17 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, and so what I'm getting at is now, so the Dabby client stuff is in just this one dash package,
01:32:27 - Anthony Campolo
but these examples are still using the old one and are initializing the client this way.
01:32:34 - Anthony Campolo
This case is using Dabby client as well.
01:32:39 - Anthony Campolo
So, then.
01:32:44 - Anthony Campolo
Let's just do this.
01:33:03 - Anthony Campolo
And to me, your value is not a function.
01:33:10 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, so I'm guessing this may be because this is the deprecated one.
01:33:17 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so let's try.
01:33:28 - Anthony Campolo
This is going to be get best block hash.
01:33:34 - Anthony Campolo
Let me just grab this whole thing.
01:33:41 - Anthony Campolo
It's just, you know.
01:33:55 - Anthony Campolo
Let's see if that works.
01:34:11 - Anthony Campolo
This is the type of thing I was having issues with last time.
01:34:15 - Anthony Campolo
There's some TLS stuff.
01:34:16 - Anthony Campolo
It looks like it still did it for us.
01:34:19 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, cool.
01:34:20 - Anthony Campolo
So we're getting...
01:34:24 - Anthony Campolo
Course status?
01:34:28 - Anthony Campolo
Course status is here.
01:34:29 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:34:34 - Anthony Campolo
Let's just call her get status.
01:34:37 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, so first it console logs this.
01:34:39 - Anthony Campolo
That's what's happening here.
01:34:42 - Anthony Campolo
So that's what this is.
01:34:47 - Anthony Campolo
That's get best block.
01:34:49 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:34:49 - Anthony Campolo
I see.
01:34:51 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:34:51 - Anthony Campolo
So actually let's,
01:34:57 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:35:02 - Anthony Campolo
So what's in the status information?
01:35:06 - Anthony Campolo
Looking at the chain, got the master node, and then the network.
01:35:13 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, I'm not as interested in that.
01:35:17 - Anthony Campolo
I think I want to.
01:35:21 - Anthony Campolo
Just return the best block hash.
01:35:30 - Anthony Campolo
I'm just going to do this.
01:35:35 - Anthony Campolo
It's...
01:35:39 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, cool.
01:35:41 - Anthony Campolo
That's a little simpler.
01:35:47 - Anthony Campolo
I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull this.
01:36:12 - Anthony Campolo
So I have a meeting in 20 minutes.
01:36:14 - Anthony Campolo
So I'm going to want to hop off probably in 10.
01:36:16 - Anthony Campolo
So I'll have some time.
01:36:20 - Anthony Campolo
Ready.
01:36:33 - Anthony Campolo
Awesome.
01:36:41 - Anthony Campolo
That's very clean.
01:37:00 - Anthony Campolo
There.
01:37:06 - Anthony Campolo
Okay.
01:37:17 - Anthony Campolo
So yeah, so really importing dash from dash with ESM and then initializing the client like this then gives you access to the client methods here.
01:37:30 - Anthony Campolo
So this is what you want.
01:37:33 - Anthony Campolo
So all of this is all wrong.
01:37:38 - Anthony Campolo
And this, if that's kind of the case throughout these examples,
01:37:46 - Anthony Campolo
then it might make sense to just start rewriting these and bringing them in here, kind of one by one.
01:37:59 - Anthony Campolo
I could see why it might take a little while.
01:38:02 - Anthony Campolo
There's not really examples for these ones, though.
01:38:15 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, this is, so this stuff, okay, so the DAPI client, I think you need to get rid of DAPI client here, and then just have this SDK be the thing.
01:38:24 - Anthony Campolo
This is what you want.
01:38:29 - Anthony Campolo
here.
01:38:31 - Anthony Campolo
I think dash pay dot gam.io is supposed to be dead.
01:38:34 - Anthony Campolo
Confirm with our docs kind of description.
01:38:36 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah.
01:38:36 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, cool.
01:38:38 - Anthony Campolo
Great, great, great.
01:38:41 - Anthony Campolo
Looks like there's a lot of information in here, though, that is not anywhere else in information index form.
01:38:52 - Anthony Campolo
Just things like showing you a lot of this stuff.
01:38:57 - Anthony Campolo
So, yeah, that's kind of the challenge is...
01:39:03 - Anthony Campolo
Is there a reference for that somewhere around here?
01:39:08 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, it doesn't look...
01:39:13 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, it's just like everything is all mixed up into everything.
01:39:17 - Anthony Campolo
So it's really hard to tell what's what.
01:39:22 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, let me separate out these two other ones.
01:39:26 - Anthony Campolo
So I want to have scripts just for each of these standalone ones using the Dappy client then.
01:39:36 - Anthony Campolo
This should be get best block hash.
01:39:49 - Anthony Campolo
It's still working great.
01:39:55 - Anthony Campolo
So that all goes away.
01:40:01 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, and it's not that.
01:40:04 - Anthony Campolo
It's with, eh, kind of, yeah, okay.
01:40:25 - Anthony Campolo
What I want to do is I want to break this off into the client.
01:41:43 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, let's move this up.
01:42:08 - Anthony Campolo
And then I wanted the other examples here.
01:42:11 - Anthony Campolo
So get blocked by height.
01:42:22 - Anthony Campolo
Every kind.
01:43:04 - Anthony Campolo
And then I can just grab all of this here now.
01:43:11 - Anthony Campolo
And change this.
01:43:21 - Anthony Campolo
Let's see if that works.
01:43:40 - Anthony Campolo
Except I probably haven't created it yet.
01:43:51 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, great.
01:43:53 - Anthony Campolo
That's one of the things that always challenges me with doing this is I'll write something, you gotta read me and then run a command like I just wrote it in an actual file because I'm silly like that.
01:44:08 - Anthony Campolo
Something's happening.
01:44:12 - Anthony Campolo
Interesting.
01:44:14 - Anthony Campolo
Interesting.
01:44:21 - Anthony Campolo
So it's giving me a buffer.
01:44:25 - Anthony Campolo
Best block hash buffer.
01:44:27 - Anthony Campolo
A whole bunch more bytes.
01:44:30 - Anthony Campolo
Don't think that's...
01:44:33 - Anthony Campolo
Is that what I wanted?
01:44:37 - Anthony Campolo
Huh.
01:44:43 - Anthony Campolo
Not sure if that's coming in some format that I need to
01:44:49 - Anthony Campolo
Transform.
01:44:51 - Anthony Campolo
But let's just try this one.
01:44:55 - Anthony Campolo
Let's see what happens.
01:45:01 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, this one, that one works.
01:45:04 - Anthony Campolo
Cool.
01:45:05 - Anthony Campolo
So let's just get block hash to string.
01:45:08 - Anthony Campolo
Cool, thank you.
01:45:18 - Anthony Campolo
I need to hop off so that I'll be next time.
01:45:24 - Anthony Campolo
Cool.
01:45:24 - Anthony Campolo
Oh, duh.
01:45:25 - Anthony Campolo
Whoops.
01:45:29 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah.
01:45:40 - Anthony Campolo
And then JSON.stringify it.
01:45:56 - Anthony Campolo
We're getting somewhere, but I need to hop off.
01:45:59 - Anthony Campolo
Cool.
01:45:59 - Anthony Campolo
Well, thank you.
01:46:01 - Anthony Campolo
Not sure what your name is, P.
01:46:04 - Anthony Campolo
Shenmick, but thank you so much for hanging out and for super useful help.
01:46:10 - Anthony Campolo
Also, let me stop screen sharing.
01:46:14 - Anthony Campolo
And yeah, so I think I'll be doing this around this time every week.
01:46:19 - Anthony Campolo
And once I get through kind of checking out all the docs examples and orienting myself of where things are, then we'll start building things with actual like React front ends and stuff like that.
01:46:31 - Anthony Campolo
But as you can see, there are a lot of things I was confused about in terms I didn't know.
01:46:35 - Anthony Campolo
Things that could probably be smoothed out if you have like kind of one getting started tutorial that very clearly
01:46:43 - Anthony Campolo
walks you through these are the things you need this is the things you should import and stuff like that so that's probably what i'll end up creating before i get into the react stuff but i'll probably be able to do most of that on the next stream
01:46:56 - Anthony Campolo
and um ryan will chat i'll chat with you after this and just kind of uh yeah see see what you thought and how it went and all that so um yeah i will catch you guys next week