Introduction
As I said before, I'm making my way, little by little, towards understanding and playing with the steem blockchain. I'm a beginner in development but I'm building my knowledge day after day. Here I share my journey towards becoming a SteeemDev, some of the hurdles and discoveries that I'm making along the way.
My First Project Will Be...
@photofeed is this really cool account that curate the best of the best in professional photographies on the steem blockchain. They resteem 5 times a day and I have to upvote all of them manually since there are no services that allows me to upvote someone else's resteem automatically.
This is a pain in the neck especially since our daughter is born. I get busy and forget about dealing with that detail of my life sometimes.
So that will be it, create a resteem bot for myself so that I can upvote @photofeed's resteem without having to do so manually. For that purpose, bots can be very useful...if the action you are taking with them are action you would do manually anyway, why not automate it?
If you want to follow the progress, you can keep an eye on https://github.com/RenaudGagne/resteem-bot
Connecting my computer to the Steem Blockchain
Now that has always been where I got confused...and I still am to some extent. But I made some headway today with my friend.
So here are the steps I took.
- I installed CMDER
- I installed Node.JS
- Create a local directory called /resteem-bot
Then in CMDER I typed:
npm init
It asked a whole bunch of stuff which I mostly just press enter through.
Now this create a package.json so that whoever in the future plays with the resteem-bot will get all the libraries they will need to run it.
Then I enter in CMDER:
npm install steem --save
then I opened node.js to write javascript in the console.
node
and then
var steem = require("steem")
so that I have a variable to call the steem blockchain.
then whever I type steem I get the list of all of the different call I can do on the steem blockchain... THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM!
So I went over to https://github.com/steemit/steem-js/tree/master/doc to get the master documentation for all that is steemJS API calls.
I'm still lost when it comes to what to do next but at least, I'm right at the door and can poke around to learn more. There is another place I'll be looking into which is on the Steem Dev portal. The tutorial documentation on SteemJS is quite parse and some serious work is needed there to help people like me really get a grip on how to best use SteemJS. Here is the link to the current SteemJS tutorial. https://developers.steem.io/tutorials/#tutorials-javascript
Conclusion
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
― Bill Gates
If you are using Windows 10 consider using Bash for Windows. It is a full Ubuntu installation under windows and is not using emulation. As long as you are not trying to directly access gpu (mining) or network card (traffic sniffing) it runs most everything like you are on Linux. You can then use vs code, sublime, atom or whatever text editor you like to directly edit the code.
Cmdr is nice Linux is better.
Ill take your advice for sure.
Wow, it will be great to have a resteem-bot on the Steem blockchain. This is what I call thinking out of box and it will be useful for many people and many communities.
You are progressing well and doing great with your learning.
My regards to your new born baby and your lovely wife
Nice. Sounds like you are making progress. Glad you are spending energy on Steem projects.
How's your little girl ?
I hope she's doing okay.
Photofeed is indeed a great project. All these blistering photographs and amazing sceneries make us fall in love with nature.
I am a big fan of photography as most of my posts relate to photography. And photofeed has resteemed my photography on multiple occasions. Thank you.
Have a great day.
One of the greatest post and I am happy for sharing this post and I appreciate your every post..
Actually your every post just help for us..and I follow your every story about and like it.
Thanks my dear friend
I will wait for your next post and keep it up..
Upvote and resteemit done...
@photofeeds is indeed a great project.
My regards to your daughter.
Thank you very much @cryptoctopus
@cryptooctopus what is steemjs? where can I read the definition?
@jaldesign steemjs is the api of steem but by javascript since there are other apis for different programming languages
@ederaleng you have steemjs website?
@jaldesign steemjs is the documentation with which you create the sites that there are of steem like dtube, dlive etc.so if you know how to program in javascript and nodejs has the api some very good tutorials in https://github.com/steemit/devportal-tutorials-js or you can read the documentation in https://github.com/steemit/steem-js For my part I do not have website but that is the plan for the future
It had been a long time since I saw you here, that bot looks quite promising, but my question is what parameters or what photos do you know what to do and what do not?
Or is it totally random?
I know the guys behind the project so I trust in their jugement. If they resteem, its worth my upvote.
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful post. I always show respect to you for this post. You're working for steemit. I love it.
I am agree. @cryptoctopus
I think I will go so far.
thanks for the post
One of my goals in Steemit is to develop things, games or apps. But I feel lost because I don't have a lot of experience coding... I think I need a team, even if it's small. I'm sure that there is a lot of info and tools, but for me sometimes it's too much information and I don't understand a lot of it.
BTW thank you for your support on Steemgar, I've received great rewards from that game.
Greeting from Mexico.
that is great @cryptoctopus i also started working very recently with steem api also publish two tutorials and then with what I have learned make a small bot. Welcome to the world of programming.
I have found out that if you are developer, the STEEM blockchain avail you the opportunity to shine (though my thought). Great work sir this is another value added to the blockchain
Very professional from you. I'm thrilled to be on this platform
Love your aspiration to become a Steem blockchain developer.
Is there a reason you chose steem-js over dsteem?
Seems from the dev portal to be the main API library...am I wrong?
That's what I thought first, but most of the JS tutorials on the devportal are utilizing dsteem.
This sounds like a really cool project. There are so many things that we would like to be able to do on Steemit that are just not available to us yet. I would love to find a way to catalogue posts that I read and bookmark them other than just resteem. I wish I had the hardware and to look at coding. It sounds like what you are learning and doing is a lot of fun. I know how you feel about having the newborn at home. Life is all of a sudden so much busier. I have three kids but they are all over 11 years old now.
very cool