Cross-Chain Multi-Chain Block Explorer
"This explorer is ... amazing man. So fast (by far the fastest for me) and complete" - buta
The Blockcore Explorer is a cross-chain block explorer that can also run in a multi-chain mode. Individual chains that builds on Blockcore, can run this explorer for their own chain, without the multi-chain capability.
Home screen:
Explorer screen:
This block explorer support multiple blockchains in the same running instance, or can be run with only a single blockchain. It is built on Angular and runs an Single Page Application.
Blockcore Explorer is an Angular app that is hosted by the .NET runtime with an Visual Studio C# project.
It is possible to develop on the explorer without needing Visual Studio, but you need Node.js.
When the Angular App first runs, it will make an HTTP request to a single REST API that is hosted on the Visual Studio C# project. This REST API will return which blockchain the explorer should display.
It can either run in multi-chain mode and list all blockchains that exists in the public JSON file. Or it can run in one specific chain mode, e.g. "City Chain".
If you run from console/terminal using Node.js and Angular CLI, you do NOT get this functionality. You will always get multi-chain mode when running without the Visual Studio C# project.
To run the explorer in an auto-reload mode with Angular, WITHOUT needing .NET at all, you must navigate to the following folder:
"blockcore-explorer/src/Blockcore.Explorer/ClientApp"
Then run:
npm install -g @angular/cli
npm install
npm startThis will host an web server on: http://localhost:4200/
The other alternative is to open the Blockcore.Indexer.sln using Visual Studio 2022 and clicking F5 (start debugging). This will run the explorer on the following URL: http://localhost:9911/
Out of the box, the explorer will connect to locally running indexer. If you are not running your own indexer, you must do a minor configuration change so you rely on the public indexers that is hosted by the Blockcore team.
Edit this file and change the useLocalIndexer: true to useLocalIndexer: false.
src/Blockcore.Explorer/ClientApp/src/environments/environment.ts
Our previous Block Explorer was built on ASP.NET Razor technology and the repo has been moved to blockcore-explorer-legacy repository.
If you want to use and deploy the legacy explorer, make sure you run version 0.0.X of the docker images.
From version 0.1.X, the docker images will be our new explorer.