🚀Create a Moralis Dapp (DEPRECATED)

Each Dapp has an on-chain part (smart contracts) and an off-chain part (server). The server is used in order to collect data from the blockchain and serve it to clients such as web and mobile apps

Moralis Server Deprecation

The Moralis Server has been deprecated and you should now self-host your own server. To self-host, follow this guide here.

If you are only using Moralis for its APIs, check out our latest documentation here.

What is a Moralis Dapp?

Each Dapp is usually divided into 2 parts:

  1. On-chain: Smart Contracts, On-Chain Assets like tokens and NFTs, On-Chain transactions etc.

  2. Off-chain: Backend infrastructure that collects data from the blockchain, offers an API to clients like web apps and mobile apps, indexes the blockchain, provides real-time alerts, coordinates events that are happening on different chains, handles the user life-cycle and so much more.

Moralis Dapp is used in order to speed up the implementation of the off-chain infrastructure. Moralis Dapp is a bundled solution of all the features most Dapps need in order to get going as soon as possible.

1. Create a free account

Go to Moralis and sign up for a free account.

2. Create a Moralis Server

Click Create a new server in the top right corner.

You can use Moralis to develop dApps for mainnets, testnets and local devchains (for example Hardhat and Ganache).

For now, please select Mainnet Server.

3. Set Up Desired Environment

For the purpose of this demo, we select Ethereum, Polygon, BSC and Avalanche.

4. Explore the Dapp Dashboard

Now you will see your server in your dashboard, and we can move on and create a web app that talks to the server and is able to login users, fetch user data (tokens, NFTs, historical transactions), and so much more! All cross-chain by default, of course 🤯

The server displays several important indicators as shown in the image above:

  • Network: Network traffic per second

  • CPU: Server's CPU Usage

  • RAM: Server's RAM Usage

  • DISK: Server's Disk Usage

  • Number of Users: The number of users that have been authenticated in the server

Migrate Dapp to Nitro Version

Every new Dapp created in Moralis now will be Nitro by default. However, those Dapps created before the launch of Moralis Nitro might still be using the legacy version. In order to upgrade the server to Nitro, simply install the coreservices plugin by clicking here.

Keep in mind that once the coreservices plugin has been added, it can't be removed. This means that the migration from Legacy to Nitro will be irreversible. From your server, you can see coreservices as one of the plugins.

If you are in production and you have strict access rights to tables, then, coreservices role has to be added to CLP for some tables, for example for tables where event syncs are done. You can contact us in legacy to nitro migration channel in discord in case that you need assistance.

Note: This screenshot was taken while Moralis was still using Legacy UI!

Moralis Nitro Dapp has a number of breaking changes that are listed here.

One important change when migrating from legacy to Nitro would be the removal of TokenBalance and NFTOwners tables from the database. This means once the Moralis Dapp has been migrated, these tables will disappear

To attain the same functionality, all queries to these tables should be replaced with some of our available Web3APIs to do the same job:

Tutorial

Note: UI in the videos might differ from the current UI

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