Install

NodeJS or Bun ?

Bun is a modern alternative to Node.js, known for its superior performance, especially in compute-heavy tasks. Since Blocknote makes extensive use of cryptography and compression, we recommend using Bun for optimal speed and efficiency. In fact, our current public dapp (blocknote.space) is running on Bun.

Blocknote.js remains fully compatible with both Bun and Node.js.

Install Bun

npm i bun

Or visit https://bun.com/docs/installation for alternated installations.

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Install package

Blocknote is available on https://www.npmjs.com/package/blocknote

npm i blocknote

The .env file

Before using Blocknote, make sure to edit your .env file. There is an .env.example file into the github repo.

PRIVATE_KEY_AES = "" # Use by the BlocknoteManager
SQLITE_DATABASE_PATH = "./db/"  # Use by the BlocknoteManager
ALGOD_URL = "https://testnet-api.algonode.cloud" 
ALGOD_TOKEN = 
ALGOD_PORT = 
INDEXER_TOKEN = 
INDEXER_PORT = 
INDEXER_URL = "https://testnet-idx.algonode.cloud"

Since Node.js now supports native handling of .env files, Blocknote is not using the dotenv library. To ensure proper functionality, run Node.js with the appropriate argument.

node your-app.js --env-file=.env

or

bun your-app.js --env-file=.env