Techniques for Using Server-side Node.js Modules with the Truffle Ethereum Development Framework

  • Authors

    • Hyun-Min Eom
    • Jae-Hwan Jin
    • Myung-Joon Lee
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v8i1.4.25455

    Received date: January 6, 2019

    Accepted date: January 6, 2019

    Published date: February 17, 2026

  • Ethereum, Decentralized Application, Truffle, Function Gateway, Blockchain.

  • Abstract

    Truffle is a framework that provides compiling, testing and systematic project management for developing Ethereum decentralized applications. As of now, Truffle provides a way to easily deal with bundling node.js modules of decentralized application using the webpack tool. However, due to the Truffle project structure, server-side node.js modules such as network communication modules are not usable in a direct way.  In this paper, to address this issue, we propose a method to use server-side node.js modules through Ethereum smart contracts and event processing mechanism. In the proposed method, a separate node application is associated to the server-side module to execute the module in response to the request of the decentralized application. To this end, we introduce the notion of function gateway, a smart contract for connecting two applications with Ethereum's event-watch processing technique. Also, to use the function gateway contract in a robust way, we introduce a robust function gateway that includes the process of confirming whether or not the event-watch has occurred and the node.js module function has been executed. In addition, we present a decentralized application using node.js module for sending actual e-mails based on the function gateway.

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    Eom, H.-M., Jin, J.-H., & Lee, M.-J. (2026). Techniques for Using Server-side Node.js Modules with the Truffle Ethereum Development Framework. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 8(1.4), 448-457. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v8i1.4.25455