The goal of BITBOX is to accelerate how quickly $BCH devs can create their apps. W/ that in mind today we’re launching Scaffolds. This is a way to bootstrap a Bitcoin Cash application in under a minute.

When creating a new application on any platform too much time is spent setting everything up and configuring it. BITBOX scaffolds do the heavy lifting for you and let you focus on building your app.

React

To quickly create a React app w/ BITBOX web bindings follow these steps.

Setup

Download the latest build from bitbox.earth and compare the checksums Start your local BITBOX Install bitbox-cli globally npm install bitbox-cli --global Scaffold a React app w/ BITBOX web bindings bitbox new myApp --scaffold react cd into new app cd myApp/ Install dependencies npm install Start the app npm start Open a browser to http://localhost:3000/ and confirm you are seeing a basic BIP44 wallet Win

Angular

To quickly create an Angular app w/ BITBOX web bindings follow these steps.

Setup

Download the latest build from bitbox.earth and compare the checksums Start your local BITBOX Install bitbox-cli globally npm install bitbox-cli --global Scaffold an Angular app w/ BITBOX web bindings bitbox new myApp --scaffold angular cd into new app cd myApp/ Install dependencies npm install Start the app npm start Open a browser to http://localhost:4200/ and confirm you are seeing a basic BIP44 wallet Win

Node

To quickly create a Node JS app w/ BITBOX bindings follow these steps.

Setup

Download the latest build from bitbox.earth and compare the checksums Start your local BITBOX Install bitbox-cli globally npm install bitbox-cli --global Scaffold a NodeJS app w/ BITBOX bindings bitbox new myApp --scaffold node cd into new app cd myApp/ Install dependencies npm install Start the app npm start Confirm you are seeing a basic BIP44 wallet Win

Config

By default your new app will connect to BITBOX Cloud over REST. If you want to connect to your ownn REST services pass in a config object when instantiating bitbox-cli .

let BITBOX = new BITBOXCli ({ restURL : 'my-rest-url' });

Summary

W/ BITBOX Scaffolds you can now create a $BCH app in under a munute. This should accelerate how quickly developers can create Bitcoin Cash apps. Go developers go!