Quick Setup of Ripple Lib with Nodejs to Query the Ripple API

Quick-Nodejs-Ripple-Lib-Setup

// Node must be downloaded to beign
// Install ripple-lib // A JavaScript API for interacting with Ripple in Node.js and the browser
npm install ripple-lib

// In Node require ripple-lib
const {RippleAPI} = require('ripple-lib');

// The object that is returned contains all the functionality to query the ripple network

// First you must connect to Ripples servers // Run this from node terminal
const api = new RippleAPI({
  server: 'wss://s1.ripple.com' // Public rippled server hosted by Ripple, Inc.
});
api.on('error', (errorCode, errorMessage) => {
  console.log(errorCode + ': ' + errorMessage);
});
api.on('connected', () => {
  console.log('connected');
});
api.on('disconnected', (code) => {
  // code - [close code](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CloseEvent) sent by the server
  // will be 1000 if this was normal closure
  console.log('disconnected, code:', code);
});
api.connect().then(() => {
  /* insert code here */
}).then(() => {
  return api.disconnect();
}).catch(console.error);

// Your terminal should return that you are now connected to Ripple