Launch a local network
How to get our parachain running on localhost
A minimum local dev network consists of 2 relay chain nodes and 1 parachain node. To launch it, there're two ways (taking litentry as an example, litmus is similar):
- 1.make sure docker and yarn are installed
- 2.
- 3.
cd litentry-parachain - 4.
make launch-docker-litentry
Both
parity/polkadot and litentry/litentry-parachain images will be pulled from upstream automatically. Additionally, parachain-launch will be installed and used to generate chain-specs and docker-compose files.The generated files will be under
docker/generated-litentry/.
Wait a while until you see such logs:
logs showing that the network is launched successfully
Up to this point the network is launched successfully.
You should be able to connect to the chain websocket via browser:
When finished with the dev network, run
make clean-docker-litentry to stop the docker containers and tidy things upOnly when option 1 doesn't work and you suspect the docker-image went wrong. In this case we could try to launch the dev network with raw binaries.
On Linux host:
- you should have the locally compiled
./target/release/litentry-collatorbinary. - run
make launch-binary-litentry
On Non-Linux host:
- you should have locally compiled binaries, for both
polkadotandlitentry-collator - run
./scripts/launch-local-binary.sh litentry <path-to-polkadot-bin> <path-to-litentry-parachain-bin>
Likewise, when finished with the dev network, run
make clean-binary to stop the processes and tidy things up.Note this command should work for both litentry and litmus.
The default leasing duration for parachain is 1 day, in case you want to extend it (even after it's downgraded to parathread), simply do a
forceLease via sudo, it should be upgraded to parachain soon again and start to produce blocks.
polkadot-js extrinsic to extend the leasing period
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