How to Create a Supply Chain Blockchain App

Blockchain increases visibility and efficiency in the supply chain like the coffee trade. See how blockchain can assist farmers, roaster and everyone between, bring you a fresher and fairer cup. Come out and we will walk you through design, development, and deployment of an illustrative blockchain network and application.

In this bi-coastal USA in Manhattan, NY hands on workshop and [soon to be posted] Bay Area, CA

You will learn about...

• Developing a supply chain blockchain application with VS Code
• Deploying it on the IBM Blockchain Platform.
• Successful Blockchain applications in the Supply Chain space such as IBM Food Trust and others
• Best practices for developing blockchain applications today and looking forward to the future

The slide deck

Here it is in PDF format

Components used

• IBM Blockchain Platform Extenstion for Visual Studio Code
• Hyperledger Fabric

Prequisites

Please sign up for an IBM cloud account

For IBM Blockchain Platform to work correctly the following software tools and exact versions need to be in setup.

1. Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code(VSCode) is a popular IDE that runs on all major operating systems.

For this workshop you will need to confirm you have the Sept 2019 version 1.39.x of Visual Studio Code installed.

If not that's OK, just download the older version, 1.39.x from Microsoft here

TIP: Pin VSCode Version!! Be sure to change Setttings/Update:Mode to manual

How to ...

Pin this version for the duration of this workshop/blockchain discovery untill stable release of ecosystem is availible. ( otherwise each vscode restart will update vscode!) it 

Great! Now lets make sure you have all the other required software and versions:

1. node.js
2. npm
3. docker
4. docker-compose

check the versions by running these commands at your terminal

node -v
v10.16.3

npm -v
6.13.7

docker -v
Docker version 19.03.5, build 633a0ea

docker-compose -v
docker-compose version 1.25.4, build 8d51620a

If you have these, awesome!

If you don't have the correct version of node.js and npm? No worries! We recommend using Node Version Manager(NVM) to run mutliple node.js version safely on your computer

Click here to learn more about NVM and it's setup.

>Follow the simple [NVM install docs here](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm)

If you are having trouble, check out the comprehensive documentation on how to start Developing smart contracts with Visual Studio Code extension or check out our Trouble shooting page here

Fire up Microsoft Visual Studio Code and install the VSCode Extension for the IBM Blockchain Platform

Start the FABRIC ENVIRONMENT

tbd add image/video here ...

and let us begin by following along with the instructors

Create a simple Coffee Bean Supply Chain Blockchain on Hyperledger Fabric

Part One: Setup Visual Studio Code to use the IBM Blockchain Platform extenston.

Start with the default project template

Track the journey of Coffee Beans From Farm to The Roaster

Follow along with the video

Note this is a silent video for now.

Create a simple Coffee Bean Supply ChainBlockchain on Hyperledger Fabric

Resources

The Blockchain Bean

Create a fair trade supply chain network – Use Hyperledger Fabric to increase efficiency in the supply chain of a coffee retailer – March 2019, IBM Code Pattern by Horea Porutiu and Grant Steinfeld

Starbucks to Track Coffee Using Microsoft’s Blockchain Service

Forbes Blockchain 50

Why blockchain is a better database

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Grant Steinfeld @gsteinfeld

Lennart Frantzell @LFrantzell

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