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I have a localhost blockchain node successfully working and my contract deploys OK using truffle. Geth works too. But when I try and access the node via React and the Chrome console when running React I am not getting anything meaningful. Even web3.eth.coinbase does not work.

Example code -

 var web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider('http://localhost:8545'));


var x = web3.eth.coinbase;

And x is undefined.

Here is the connection string -

geth --datadir ~/blockchain/mybc1 --rpc --rpcaddr "localhost" --port 8545 --rpcport 8545 --networkid 1234 console 2> consolemybc1.log

Has anyone any ideas about this?

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  • The '--port' specifies the p2p port, which, by default is 30303. It shouldn't be the same as the "--rpcport" . Try removing the "--port 8545" and see what happens?
    – Linmao Song
    Apr 3, 2018 at 15:45
  • I changed that and the same issue exists.
    – Trevor Oakley
    Apr 3, 2018 at 16:49
  • Try adding --rpccorsdomain '*' (notice the single quote) ?
    – Linmao Song
    Apr 3, 2018 at 16:58
  • Done - same issues. I think web3 was changed too? But is there a way to debug the connection?
    – Trevor Oakley
    Apr 3, 2018 at 17:19
  • Check for web3 itself... is it still undefined... if it is not...you can check web3.version.api
    – kherwa
    Apr 3, 2018 at 17:22

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The installation somehow had different versions. The default is 1.0 using npm install web3 which fails.

Here is the correct installation - 

npm install [email protected]

Reference - https://www.versioneye.com/nodejs/web3/0.20.2

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