Block explorer for private net / local Ethereum block explorer

Local Ethereum block explorer is a useful tool that can be used to explore the local private net blockchain.

There is an open source free block explorer available on GitHub at https://github.com/etherparty/explorer. We will use this software in our examples to visualize blocks and transactions.

This can be installed by following these steps:

  1. On a Linux Ubuntu machine or macOS, run the following command in order to install the local Ethereum block explorer:
      $ git clone https://github.com/etherparty/explorer

This will show output similar to the following:

      Cloning into 'explorer'...
      remote: Counting objects: 269, done.
      remote: Total 269 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused ...

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