EscrowPi

EscrowPi is a prototype payment solution designed for the Pi Hackathon. It provides a simple escrow-based payment flow that enables secure transactions between buyers and sellers using Pi.

Table of Contents

• Brand Design
• Tech Stack
• Backend Local Execution
• Team
• Contributions

Brand Design

App Logo	App Icon

Tech Stack 📊

• Frontend: NextJS/ React, TypeScript, Tailwind + MUI
• Backend: Express/ NodeJS, REST API
• Database: MongoDB
• DevOps: GitHub Actions

Backend Local Execution

The EscrowPi Back End is a Node.js project.

Build the Project

• Run npm run build to build the project; compile Typescript into Javascript for production to the .dist folder.
  • The build artifacts are bundled for production mode.

Execute the Development Server

• Create .env file from the .env.development template and replace placeholders with actual values.
• Execute npm run dev to connect to nodemon and MongoDB server.
• Navigate to http://localhost:8001/ in your browser.
• Execute Frontend Local Execution for integration testing. Alternatively, utilize API tools like Insomnia or Postman to execute the API endpoints.
  • The application will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.
  • For local debugging in VS Code, attach the runtime server to the appropriate Process ID.

Execute Unit Tests

• Run npm run test to execute the unit tests via Jest.

Team 🧑👩‍🦱🧔👨🏾‍🦱👨🏾

Project Manager

• Philip Jennings

Technical Lead/ DevOps

• Danny Lee

Application Developers

• Yusuf Adisa
• Rajasekhar Reddy

Contributions

We welcome contributions from the community to improve the EscrowPi project.