Overview

Marketplace has dependencies on multiple technologies.

• Pinata - store images, and NFT metadata
• Ganache - private Blockchain, to run application localy

How to setup

1. run npm install to install dependencies

2. Then install the frontend dependencies by changing your directory cd frontend and then run npm install

3. In the root folder of the application rename .env.example file to .env file and update the contents

4. In the frontend folder of the application rename .env.development.local.example file to .env.development.local and update the contents

   • (your api pinata key has to allow pinFileToIPFS and pinJSONToIPFS rules)

5. Then migrate a contract to Ganache, contract can be found in the truffle/contracts folder. It's called NftMarket.sol

   • To migrate the contract change your directory by using this command cd truffle then run truffle compile (for the first time) then run truffle migrate in the terminal while Ganache network is setup and running.

   • Do not forget to link trufle-config.js from truffle folder with Ganache, just go to config and click Add Project

   • keys.json must be created if you want to deploy to Ropsten, if not, just remove import of keys.json from trufle-config.js and also comment out ropsten configuration

• Now everything is setup and you can test out the app.

Start the application

• Run npm run dev from root directory in the terminal. App will run at localhost:3000