Welcome to Updated Bitgesell JavaScript Tutorials

For the Web and Node.js

Prerequisites

Node.js installed - v22.0.0 is highly recommended.
Basic knowledge of JavaScript and async functions
An internet connection to access the Bitaps API

Introduction

This tutorial covers the following areas:

1. Wallet

Creating a wallet - Seedphrases
Importing a wallet from Seedphrase (account 0 - account 9)
Importing a wallet from WIF private key

2. Transactions

Transaction fees
Creating Transaction Objects
Signing a Transaction with a Private Key
Encoding Transaction objects into Hex format
Decoding Transaction objects to JSON format
Broadcasting signed Transactions to the Bitgesell Mainnet

3. UTXOs

Fetching address UTXOs
Adding UTXOs to a Transaction object

4. Balances

Fetching address balances
Handling BGL units with bgl-units/satoshi-bitcoin library

5. Explorer

Fetching Transaction History using axios/fetch
Displaying Transaction list

6. RPC

RPC Nodes for Bitgesell
A basic example interacting with RPC

Examples

All examples are under the src/ directory, with each tutorial provided in its respective subdirectory.

How to Run Each Example

Ensure the following are installed:

Node.js
NPM (comes bundled with Node.js)

Running an Example

Navigate to the tutorial directory and run:

cd src/wallet
node index.js

Feel free to modify and play around with the functions to observe the console outputs.