[FEATURE]: Add Web UI Dashboard (Next.js)

[Rav1Chauhan]

Feature and its Use Cases

🚀 Feature Request: Web UI Dashboard for MiniChain

📌 Summary

Replace the current CLI-based interaction with a modern web-based dashboard built using Next.js. This will improve usability, accessibility, and enable easier interaction with the MiniChain node.

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🎯 Goals

• Provide a user-friendly interface for interacting with the blockchain node
• Replace manual CLI commands with intuitive UI actions
• Enable real-time visualization of blockchain data

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🧩 Proposed Features

1. 💼 Wallet UI

• Display current wallet address
• Show account balance
• Copy address functionality

2. 💸 Send Transactions

• Input field for recipient address
• Input field for amount
• Submit button to send transaction

3. ⛏️ Mining Controls

• Button to trigger mining
• Display mining status (pending/success)
• Show mining rewards

4. 📜 Transaction History

• List of past transactions

• Include:

  • sender
  • receiver
  • amount
  • timestamp

5. ⛓️ Blockchain Explorer (Optional)

• View blocks
• Show block hash, previous hash, transactions

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⚙️ Technical Approach

Backend Changes

• Expose REST API endpoints in main.py:

  • GET /balance
  • GET /address
  • POST /send
  • POST /mine
  • GET /chain

Frontend

• Framework: Next.js
• Styling: Tailwind CSS
• API communication via fetch/axios

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📦 Example API Contract

GET /balance
{
  "balance": 100
}

POST /send
{
  "to": "address",
  "amount": 10
}

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🧪 Benefits

• Improves developer and user experience
• Makes project more accessible for demos and learning
• Enables future integration with external systems

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🏷️ Labels

• enhancement
• frontend
• good first issue

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🙌 Contribution

I would like to work on this feature and implement the frontend + backend integration.

@Zahnentferner whats your view?
I am ready to work on this

Additional Context

No response

Code of Conduct

• I have joined the Discord server and will post updates there
• I have searched existing issues to avoid duplicates