An app that moves assets between Ethereum and NEAR. You can use this as the starting point for your own app on the Rainbow Bridge.

Try it between Ethereum Rinkeby & NEAR Testnet: https://near.github.io/rainbow-bridge-frontend

You can think of the Rainbow Bridge as having three main pieces:

1. Clients. These get raw NEAR data into Ethereum and vice versa. These are light clients that run as smart contracts in each blockchain, with external relays to pipe the data in each direction.
2. Provers. These are smart contracts that allow making assertions about data stored in the clients.
3. Connectors. These are smart contract pairs, one on each chain, that provide an interface to apps that want to send certain kinds of data or calls from one blockchain to the other. They use the provers to ensure each operation is valid.

An app such as this one can then make calls to these various contracts to move assets between Ethereum and NEAR.

Right now, this app only moves a specific ERC20 fungible token from Ethereum to NEAR by making calls to a TokenLocker / MintableFungibleToken Connector contract pair. Here's how it looks:

Above, we see someone sending tokens from their Ethereum wallet to their NEAR account. Here are the steps the app goes through:

1. Make a call to the ERC20 contract to grant escrow access to a TokenLocker contract for the specified number of tokens (MetaMask pops up a confirmation here)
2. Make a call to the TokenLocker to transfer these tokens from the user to itself (2nd MetaMask popup)
3. TokenLocker contract emits Locked event
4. This app waits for enough blocks to be mined on top of the one where this Locked event was emitted to feel confident that the transaction won't be reverted. This number could change based on the security needs of given Connector contracts.
5. In the GIF above, it waits 25 blocks. These blocks need not only be mined in Ethereum, but also need to land in the EthOnNear Client contract. In the code, you'll see the app check progress by making calls to such a Client contract.
6. This app makes a call to the MintableFungibleToken contract on NEAR to mint NEP141 fungible tokens on NEAR. Since NEAR contracts charge the contract owner for storage, this contract charges the user a small transaction fee, which is why you see a confirmation message on the NEAR side.
7. The tokens have appeared in the user's NEAR wallet, and the app updates accordingly.

Here's a schematic representation, where "Transfer script" is this app's JavaScript:

0. Clone this repository
1. Make sure you've installed Node.js ≥ 12 and, optionally, yarn
2. Install dependencies: npm install (or yarn install if you prefer yarn)
3. Run the local development server: npm run start or yarn start (see package.json for a full list of scripts you can run)

This will start the app locally, connecting to smart contracts on the Rinkeby test network for Ethereum and NEAR's Testnet. If you want to run everything locally, see below.

1. Start in package.json

   • Note the (relatively) short list of dependencies. If you prefer to use React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, or some other framework, this app should still be an easy starting point.
   • You'll see that the start script loads environment variables from the .config.js file. Anytime you see process.env in the code, you can check .config.js to see the value. This is also where you'll want to update settings to point at your own contracts.
   • After loading environment variables, the start script runs a development server using Parcel, a zero-config bundler.

2. Next, explore index.html. Some interesting parts:

   • global.css – just as with JavaScript, this app is lightly opinionated about CSS. The global CSS file imports some more specific stylesheets using Parcel, but other than that strives to be as minimal as possible. Feel free to swap out the approach for whatever CSS framework you prefer.
   • data-behavior attributes are the main way that JavaScript hooks in, except for some CSS+JS widget-type UI elements like .dropdown.
   • aria-live="polite": this is for all the screen readers out there. It's how you make accessible dropdowns.
   • You'll see three main sections: 1. a nav element with the stuff that shows up in the top right, 2. the UI that shows up when you're signed out (note the authEthereum and authNear buttons), and 3. a main section, which is the UI you see when authenticated with both Ethereum and NEAR
   • Finally, at the bottom, you'll see the JS import

3. index.js: deceptively simple?

   • Note the imports of files named authEthereum & authNear. These imports have side effects, adding behavior to the buttons with matching data-behavior attributes. The Ethereum- and NEAR-specific stuff is mostly contained within these files, so you can compare the authentication & contract-initialization code side-by-side.
   • initDOMHandlers is a function that needs to be called once after page load, to add behavior like dropdown toggling & form submission. Check out domHelpers.js to see the simple setup here.
   • render is a function which doesn't truly render, if you're used to thinking about rendering from a framework like React. Instead, this function procedurally updates the DOM based on current app state. Open render.js to see everything it does. This function gets called again in both authEthereum and authNear after login.

In package.json you may have noticed a local command. This will let you run the app in "full local" mode, with a locally-running Ethereum network, NEAR network, NEAR Wallet (frontend & backend), Rainbow Bridge contracts, and an ERC20 contract.

This is difficult and error-prone, but could be streamlined if there's interest. Please get in touch if you want this.

To run this project locally:

1. Prerequisites: Make sure you've installed Node.js ≥ 12

2. Install dependencies: yarn install

3. Follow the instructions for rainbow-bridge-cli to run an Ethereum network, a NEAR network, and the bridge all locally

4. Run near-contract-helper locally on the default port (3000)

5. Run near-wallet locally (this PR streamlines it). Run it on port 4000 & set node's --max-http-header-size to 16000 (default is 8kb):

   yarn update:static; node --max-http-header-size=16000 ./node_modules/.bin/parcel -p 4000 src/index.html
   

6. Run the local development server: yarn local (see package.json for a full list of scripts you can run with yarn; see .config.js to see how environment variables are loaded in)

You want to contribute to rainbow-bridge-frontend itself? Thank you!

To get started:

0. Fork & clone the repository
1. Make sure you've installed Node.js ≥ 12 and yarn
2. Install dependencies: yarn install
3. Make your changes, send a pull request!

rainbow-bridge-frontend uses semantic versioning and auto-generates nice release notes & a changelog all based off of the commits. We do this by enforcing Conventional Commits. In general the pattern looks like:

type(scope?): subject  #scope is optional; multiple scopes are supported (current delimiter options: "/", "\" and ",")

Real world examples can look like this:

chore: run tests on travis ci

fix(server): send cors headers

feat(blog): add comment section

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