Lyrify

Lyrify is a decentralized application (DApp) that allows users to save song lyrics, to the Ethereum blockchain. This enables users to permanently store a record of their written work in the blockchain, which can be used to protect content creators against copyright infringement and hence protecting their creativity.

Getting Started

Follow these instruction:

Installing

Follow these instructions to get a development environment up and running:

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/sayak119/Lyrify.git

Install dependencies

cd Lyrify
npm i

Install testrpc and truffle

npm install -g ethereumjs-testrpc
npm install -g truffle

Run testrpc in a terminal window

testrpc

To compile and migrate the Solidity contracts, run the following commands in another terminal window:

truffle compile
truffle migrate --reset

Run the dev script to start the project

npm run dev

You will be pointed to localhost:3000.

Setting up MetaMask

On the MetaMask login page, click the Restore from seed phrase link.
Copy and paste the 12-word mnemonic from the testrpc output into the Wallet Seed textbox.
Change the network to Localhost 8545 in the metamask web extension.
When clicking the Submit button on the home page, a MetaMask popup will ask you to confirm the transactions. You may need to transfer ETH from the current account to the sending account (if different) for the transaction to go through. Congrats! This transactions will be mined into the Ethereum blockchain!

Technologies Used

Truffle - Popular Ethereum development framework.
Web3js - Ethereum JavaScript API.
Solidity - Contract-oriented programming language.
Open Zeppelin - Framework to build secure smart contracts on Ethereum.
MetaMask - Extension for accessing Ethereum enabled DApps in Google Chrome browser.