Create Paper Wallets For Stellar XLM Coins With Angular

Continuing down my adventure of learning about and investing in various cryptocurrencies, I thought I’d explore Stellar, which is what I understand to be, a competitor to Ripple. If you’ve been keeping up, you’ll remember that I had written about creating a Ripple XRP paper wallet in a tutorial titled, Generate Cold Storage Paper Wallets for Ripple XRP Coins with Angular.

In this tutorial, we’re going to see how to accomplish the same task of generating a cold storage paper wallet with Angular, but this time we’ll be doing it for Stellar XLM coins.

Use Chart.js To Display Attractive Charts In A Vue.js Web Application

Charts are a great way to illustrate data within an application. No one likes trying to make sense of raw data or looking at it via a table. Instead a nice bar chart or line graph can paint a perfect picture of what’s going on.

There are a lot of charting libraries available, but my personal favorite is Chart.js. It is a vanilla JavaScript library, so including it within a framework can be a little intimidating.

We’re going to see how to work with Chart.js within a project that uses the Vue.js JavaScript framework.

Use Vue.js To Generate Cold Storage Paper Wallets For DigiByte DGB Coins

To continue on my technical journey of cryptocurrency coin management, I figured it would be a good idea to share how to create a paper wallet for DigiByte DGB coins. A few weeks back I had written a tutorial titled, Generate Cold Storage Paper Wallets for Ripple XRP Coins with Angular, but we all know Ripple isn’t the only technology on the block.

In case you’re unfamiliar with paper wallets, they are nothing more than printouts that contain your private and public key information. It is separated from the internet and the paper wallets can be placed in a cold storage location like a locked safe or a bank.

We’re going to see how to use JavaScript and the Vue.js framework to generate DigiByte DGB wallet information that includes QR codes for easy scanning.

Encrypt And Decrypt Data In Node.js With The Crypto Library

As you’ve probably noticed from the previous few articles, I’ve been doing a lot of development around cryptocurrency wallets using Node.js. Up until now, I’ve only been writing about interacting with different currencies. However, I haven’t discussed how to safely store your wallet information.

When it comes to storing anything sensitive, whether it be cryptocurrency secrets or something else, you must do so safely and securely. For example, the data must be encrypted at rest and decrypted when used.

We’re going to see how to encrypt data with a passphrase using Node.js and decrypt it using that same passphrase when necessary.

Create A Cross-Platform Desktop DigiByte DGB Wallet With Angular And Electron

A few weeks back I had written an article titled, Send And Manage DigiByte DGB Coins With Node.js, which had explained how to interact with DigiByte coins via Node.js and the CLI. We saw how to keep track of a wallet, compare against the market value, and send DGB to other wallets. The catch here was that it was all CLI based and not particularly user friendly.

A popular solution towards adding a GUI to a Node.js application comes in the flavor of Electron. With Electron you’re essentially packaging a web application that can interact with native platform APIs.

Since I’m a fan of Angular, we’re going to see how to create a fancy DigiByte wallet using Electron, Node.js, and Angular.

Generate Cold Storage Paper Wallets For Ripple XRP Coins With Angular

About a week ago I wrote about Ripple in a tutorial titled, Build a Ripple XRP Wallet for Android and iOS with Ionic Framework, which focused on mobile development as a followup to a cross-platform desktop application that I had written about before that.

There are many who would advise against storing sensitive wallet information on a computer or anything connected to the internet. As an alternative, people recommend printing your transaction signing information such as private keys and storing them on what’s called a paper wallet, destined for a locked safe in your home or the bank.

We’re going to see how to create a paper wallet for Ripple XRP coins using Angular and some packages provided by the Ripple development team.

Send And Manage DigiByte DGB Coins With Node.js

I’ve been spending a lot of time researching and watching the blockchain market because it is a very interesting subject matter. Not too long ago I had written an article titled, Create a Cross-Platform Desktop Ripple XRP Wallet with Vue.js and Electron, which focused on the Ripple, the banking network and cryptocurrency.

Ripple isn’t the only cryptocurrency that I’m following. I’m also following DigiByte, which targets digital payments and has the DGB coin. If you’re not familiar with DigiByte, the official wallet forces you to download around 12GB of data to synchronize with the network. It isn’t really appealing to anyone who just wants to sit on some DGB. The good news, is this can be avoided by building your own wallet and client.

We’re going to see how to build a DigiByte DGB client for storing, sending, and managing coins without having to synchronize with the network, using JavaScript and Node.js.