jpoon/etherchain-light repository overview

⁠Etherchain Light

Etherchain Light is an Ethereum blockchain explorer built with NodeJS, Express and Parity. It does not require an external database and retrieves all information from a backend Ethereum node.

⁠Getting Started

1. git clone https://github.com/jpoon/etherchain-light
2. cd etherchain-light and npm install
3. Rename config.js.example into config.js and adjust the file to your local environment
4. Start the explorer: npm start
5. Browse to http://localhost:3000

⁠Notes

This blockchain explorer is intended for private Ethereum chains. As it does not have a dedicated database all data will be retrived on demand from a backend Parity node. Some of those calls are resource intensive (e.g. retrieval of the full tx list of an account) and do not scale well for accounts with a huge number of transactions.