This React component displays new status badges when a timestamp threshold is met. Useful for time-based games.
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Getting Started
Follow the Project Setup instructions to start the project in your local machine and try the recipes yourself. You can also clone or navigate the repo to get just what you need.
A few things to remember:
NEAR native block timestamps accuracy is in nanoseconds, that's 18 0's, 1000000000000000000
But Javascript dates only handle up to the microseconds, that's 12 0's, 1000000000000
NEAR native block timestamps are in UTC, or GMT-0
While your app Date libraries may print the date in the user's local time
NEAR native block timestamps return an u64 type
While the chrono Rust crate returns i64 values
Knowing this will make your life easier when handling dates in smart-contracts. Let's begin.
Let's examine where does Prompt Wars use dates from the on-chain storage, see fetchMarketContractValues:
These values are then used in this component to render a Counter:
For example, for the Counter component to render a countdown 5 minutes from the future, it uses ends_at. Note that Timestamp has an i64 (signed integer) as a type. While env::block_timestamp returns an u64 (unsigned integer). The reason for this is that you want to prevent Rust overflow errors when doing time operations. A Rust overflow error happens when an unsigned integer breaks the -0 limit.
Prompt Wars consists of 3 main time periods:
The game is active when env::block_timestamp is between starts_at and ends_at
By this time, users may submit prompts
The game is in the REVEALING status when env::block_timestamp is greater than ends_at and less than resolution.window
By this time, the game is comparing all prompts with the source image and setting the result of each player in its own OutcomeToken
The game is in the RESOLUTION status when env::block_timestamp is between the resolution.window
By this time, the game will set a winner by getting the result that's closest to 0
This time comparisons happen on-chain to prevent malicious manipulation and can be found here:
Lastly, in order for the UI to switch between statuses, a client-side interval checks for these flags in the UI side, but also a server-side cronjob will trigger smart-contract actions to reveal and resolve each game:
A simple useEffect will fetch and detect changes on the contract time flags and update the status accordingly:
