TESTING.md

Testing on testnet

Creating a gift wallet

Download node-funder which will be used to create gift wallets.

Make sure your Go version is 1.18 or above. Run go version to verify.

Set some environment variables:

export TESTNET_PRIVATE_KEY="..."
export TESTNET_RPC_ENDPOINT="https://goerli.infura.io/v3/..."
export NODE_FUNDER_PATH="<path to node-funder>"

Make sure you have the latest utility CLI version: npm install --global cafe-tui

Create a gift wallet with the command npx cafe-tui funder gift and make notes as it is not stored anywhere.

Switching Bee to testnet

Overwrite the following values in config.yaml which is at ~/Library/Application Support/Swarm Desktop:

mainnet: false
data-dir: 'data-dir-testnet'
swap-enable: false
swap-endpoint: ''
resolver-options: 'https://goerli.infura.io/v3/...'
bootnode: '/dnsaddr/testnet.ethswarm.org

Getting new Bee

Download the Bee binary under test from the releases page

Rename it to bee and move it to ~/Library/Application Support/Swarm Desktop

Running Desktop

Grab swarm-desktop source and run the following:

cd ui && npm install
cd .. && npm install
npm start

Switching Dashboard to testnet

Grab bee-dashboard source and switch to branch chore/testnet. It contains the testnet BZZ_TOKEN_ADDRESS and NETWORK_ID.

Start it with REACT_APP_BEE_DESKTOP_URL=http://localhost:3054 REACT_APP_BEE_DESKTOP_ENABLED=true npm start

Open URL http://localhost:3002/?v=YOUR_API_KEY with your Desktop API key. You may use the following command on OSX:

open "http://localhost:3002/?v=$(cat ~/Library/Application\ Support/Swarm\ Desktop/api-key.txt)"