electra-cli

Electra CLI

NodeJS CLI tools for Electra daemon and blockchain.

Contents

• Installation and Update
  • Local
    • Electra CLI Tools Installation
    • Electra CLI Tools Update
  • Remote
    • Bootstrap Node Installation
    • Bootstrap Node Update
• Usage
  • Electra CLI Tools Usage

Installation and Update

Local

The local installation is useful if you want to use Electra CLI Tools.

Electra CLI Tools Installation

Prerequisites:

• Node v8+ (with npm)

npm i -g electra-cli

Electra CLI Tools Update

npm i -g electra-cli

Remote

The remote installation is useful if you want to run a Bootstrap Node to help the network and publish it to help fasten the Electra wallets network bootstrap.

It is recommanded to use a real hosted server (a VPS is enough) with at least 2GB of memory.

Bootstrap Node Installation

Prerequisites:

• APT-based OS (Debian, Ubuntu, etc).
• Full root access.

cd ~
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git -y
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | bash
# or: curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
nvm install 10
git clone https://github.com/Electra-project/electra-cli.git
cd electra-cli
npm i
npm start

Note
You may need to bind your internal IP port (5817) to your external IP one (same port) via your host online management website (Azure, AWS, etc).

Bootstrap Node Update

cd ~/electra-cli
git pull
npm i
npm start

Usage

Electra CLI Tools Usage

The usage part only concerns local installtions as a tool belt.

electra <command>

Just type electra to show the manual and list the available commands.