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Write web apps in Solidity — fallback() is a Solidity web framework / a proof-of-concept implementation of HTTP over Ethereum.

See the fallback() docs for more information:

• Quick Start
• How it Works
• API Reference
• Roadmap
• Acknowledgments

• script/: Forge scripts

• src/: Contract source code

  • example/: Example fallback() web apps

    • SimpleExample.sol: Simple example app

    • FullExample.sol: Example app with prettier HTML responses

    • create-server.js: Base TCP server creation logic

    • call-server.js: Example TCP-to-blockchain fallback() server implementation that uses eth_call to return responses

    • send-server.js: Example TCP-to-blockchain fallback() server implementation that uses eth_send* methods to process requests and return responses (modifies on-chain data)

      This server requires ethers as a dependency; run npm install first.

    • Dockerfile: Example one-container Docker setup with server + HAProxy for rate limiting and caching (used to deploy live demos to AWS Fargate)

  • html-dsl/: Solidity HTML DSL contracts

    • generate-dsl.js: Script which generates a Solidity DSL function for each valid HTML element
    • H.sol: Public API of Solidity HTML DSL

  • http/*.sol: Internal framework code related to HTTP parsing/handling

  • integers/*.sol: Integer libraries (e.g. integer-to-string code)

  • strings/*.sol: String libraries (e.g. string concatenation, string comparison, etc.)

  • HttpServer.sol: Extend the HttpServer or DefaultServer contracts with a WebApp to create a Solidity HTTP server

  • WebApp.sol: Extend this contract to define routes in a custom web app

• www/: Docusaurus docs website

Forge unit tests are located in test/ directories, colocated with source code under src/.

Run tests with forge test --match-path "src/**/*.t.sol" -vvvvv".

To test that all the Solidity contracts work together, run forge script script/HttpServer.s.sol.

This script sends some example requests to the FullExampleServer in src/example/FullExample.sol and prints the output.

To test that the contracts work when deployed, run anvil to start a local testnet, then grab one of the generated private keys.

Deploy the example web app server with forge create --rpc-url http://127.0.0.1:8545 --private-key $PRIVATE_KEY src/example/FullExample.sol:FullExampleServer and grab the contract address.

Then run CONTRACT_ADDRESS=$CONTRACT_ADDRESS node src/example/server.js.

A TCP server will be started at http://localhost:8000 that will forward HTTP requests to the local deployment of the contract.

The server will return the data returned by the contract over TCP as well.