Building a block explorer in node.js

[Anonymous Kid]

What is the best way to go about this?

Should i just run a full node server side and then make rpc requests to localhost to get info?
Or do i need to design a whole database and write the blocks to a specialised file somewhere?

[odolvlobo]

Check out bcoin. It is a Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and it may be exactly what you are looking for: https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin