Running Floresta

So far in the Floresta journey we have mostly learned about the two core library crates: floresta-chain and floresta-wire.

In Chapter 1 we went over the common library (floresta-common), the three extra libraries (floresta-watch-only, floresta-compact-filters, and floresta-electrum) and the floresta meta-crate. We also mentioned floresta-rpc and floresta-node, the libraries powering our two current binaries.

This chapter puts it all together leveraging the assembler library floresta-node, which provides:

• The Florestad struct: the "orchestrator" that starts the node, spawning asynchronous tasks for each subsystem (the UtreexoNode, an optional JSON-RPC server, the Electrum server, etc.). It also sends the stop signal when requested to, as the main loop in florestad keeps checking for a Ctrl+C signal.

• The Config type: a single configuration struct used to bootstrap Florestad.