ethers-server

Exposes an Ethereum node (via RPC or IPC) via WebSockets for efficient communications using the ethers-web3 package.

Features

• Light-weight WebSockets (so no polling is requried)
• Secure (wss://) or insecure (ws://) connections supported

Installing

npm install ethers-server

Command Line Interface

/Users/ethers> node server.js --help

Command Line Interface - ethers.io/0.0.1

Usage:
    node server.js [--help] [--version] [--debug] [--pid-file PATH]
                [--port PORT] [--rpc URL] [--contract-config PATH]
                [--certificate CERT --private-key KEY
                   [ --intermediate-certificate CERT ] ... ]

        --help               show this help screen
        --version            show the software version
        --debug              enable debug options
        --pid-file PATH      path to store PID file

Service Options
        --rpc URL            url to ethereum rpc service
        --contract-config PATH
                             config JSON for contract storage

HTTP Options
        --port PORT          port to bind the server to (default: 5000)

HTTPS Options
        --certificate CERT   SSL certificate (PEM format)
        --private-key KEY    SSL private key (PEM format)
        --intermediate-certificate CERT
                             SSL intermediate certificate(s) (PEM format)

Notes:

• You can specify as many --intermediate-certificate options as you require.
• The --rpc URL options can accept either an IPC URL (e.g. ipc:/User/ethers/Library/Ethereum/geth.ipc) or HTTP URL (e.g. http://localhost:8545).

License

The ethers library is released under the MIT License.

The web3 library is available under the LGPL-3.0 license. This should not affect you unless you modify the source of the embedded web3, in which case those (and only those) changes are swept into the LGPL-3.0 license.