Introducing Bloom Starter
We are happy to announce Bloom Starter, a starting point for integrating Bloom into your app.
Getting started with integrating a third-party ecosystem can seem daunting, Bloom Starter aims to ease this pain. Giving developers a starting point will help speed up integration times.
Here at Bloom we use a Typescript + React + Express stack so our first implementation of Bloom Starter is in this stack, available under the Bloom Starter repo here. This is a very simple integration that renders a QR Code via Share Kit and manages users with a session.
Use Bloom Protocol for Login, Lending, and Financial Compliance
Bloom Protocol is an end-to-end protocol for decentralized login, identity, and credit scoring. With Bloom Protocol, you can verify a user’s identity, reduce the risk of fraud, and build compliant financial applications, all without sacrificing user privacy or risking data breaches. You can do this without taking custody of a user’s personal data, and without relying on centralized systems.
Get Started Building on Bloom Protocol
Start developing on top of the Bloom Protocol with Bloom Starter. Please see the repos below, as well as step-by-step instructions in our Bloom Workshop video.
Development
There are two parts to this app, the server-side (express) and client-side (react).
Getting Started
git clone https://github.com/hellobloom/bloom-starter.git
cd bloom-starter/bloom-starter-reactnpm run deps(install dependencies for server and react)- Before starting up the dev server, you will need a
.envfile with these variables set:PORT,NODE_ENVandSESSION_SECRET. See.env.samplefor an example of where your.envshould be look like. npm run dev
What does this do?
- Start the express server
- Start ngrok to proxy the express server
- This is so the mobile app can
POSTshare-kit data to the url
- This is so the mobile app can
- Start the react app
- The
REACT_APP_SERVER_URLenv var is set to the ngrok url
- The
Production
Build app (client and server)
This will build client and server code and output to the build/ directory
npm run build
Start app (client and server)
npm run start
Deploy to Heroku
Commands must be done from the root of the git project.
Init heroku (one time)
Assuming that your heroku app is called bloom-starter-react.
heroku login
heroku git:remote -a bloom-starter-react
Push latest
git subtree push --prefix bloom-starter-react heroku master
Join Us at ETHDenver
Starting next Friday, come join us for a fun weekend of creativity and development at ETHDenver!
- What: ETHDenver #BUIDLATHON
- When: February 15 - 17
- Where: The Sports Castle, Denver, CO
We’ve built a strong developer ecosystem, supporting development on the Bloom Protocol. Now join us at ETHDenver as we continue to foster our developer ecosystem and work to build even more applications on top of the protocol!
About Bloom
Bloom is a blockchain solution for identity security and cross-border credit scoring, restoring ownership and control of identity information and financial data back to consumers. By decentralizing the way that information is shared between untrusted parties, the system reduces the risk of identity theft and minimizes the costs associated with customer on-boarding, compliance and fraud prevention.
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