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I have Mist wallet running on Windows 8. I want to connect my NodeJS applcation to the Ethereum network. I have no idea where to start. Could you point me to the direction I should be looking at? Are there any NPM modules for this?
P.S. My end goal is to create a website that connects through an Ethereum client to the network, calls a contract and recieves return values from it. In other words, I want to create a custom token and issue it to the users of my app. This is an amazing technology!
Ethereum offers a Web3 JavaScript Ðapp API
To make your Ðapp work on Ethereum, you can use the web3 object provided by the web3.js library. Under the hood it communicates to a local node through RPC calls. web3.js works with any Ethereum node, which exposes an RPC layer.
You can use this library as jQuery in any HTML page. To use this is NodeJS web3 is available as an npm package
Run your node with geth --rpc
npm install web3
web3.setProvider(new web3.providers.HttpProvider('http://localhost:8545'));
var coinbase = web3.ETH.coinbase;
console.log(coinbase);
