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RSK Documentation

RSKj for Developers

Who needs to develop using RSKj?

If you are developing smart contracts, developing DApps, or participating in a hackathon, you are likely to want to iterate fast, and therefore need quicker feedback loops.

Running RSKj in Regtest mode is the best fit for these needs.

Steps

Install Java

  • The RSKj executable is a JAR file, and requires Java to run.
  • Install the Java 8 JDK.

Download RSKj JAR

  • Navigate to RSKj’s releases page
  • From the latest release, download a file whose name looks like rskj-core-*.jar, where * is replaced by the release tag name, for example 2.2.0-PAPYRUS.

Run RSKj

java -cp ${JAR} co.rsk.Start \
  --regtest \
  --reset \
  -Drpc.providers.web.cors=* \
  -Dminer.client.autoMine=true \
  co.rsk.Start
  • The above command runs RSKj connected to Regtest, which is a localhost-only network, clears the database each time the node is started, and enables both CORS and autoMine (which makes it behave similar to ganache).
  • These are the most useful and commonly used flags and options for when you are developing or testing smart contracts and DApps.

Advanced

Developer Tools

Debugging

RPC

Remote procedure calls (JSON-RPC) are the primary interface through which RSK nodes communicate over the network.

JSON-RPC is available over two network transport protocols: HTTP and WebSockets

Note that RSK public nodes do not expose WebSockets, they are HTTP only. To work around this, you may either run your own RSK node, or use a third-party node provider, such as Getblock.