Create an account on a private stellar network

Question

I wish to create an account on a private stellar network. The network was created using this docker image https://github.com/stellar/docker-stellar-core-horizon, with the --standalone flag.

When I attempt to create a network in the following way I receive the error Network.current(...).networkId is not a function.

The SDK is connected to the network and I am able to get the network information using StellarSdk.Network.current().

stellarServer
  .loadAccount(sourceKey.publicKey())
  .then(sourceAccount => {
    transaction = new StellarSdk.TransactionBuilder(sourceAccount)
      .addOperation(
        StellarSdk.Operation.createAccount({
          destination: dest,
          startingBalance: "100"
        })
      )
      .build();
    transaction.sign(sourceKey);
    return stellarServer.submitTransaction(transaction);
  })
  .then(result => {
    console.log("success" + JSON.stringify(result, undefined, 2));
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log("error" + error);
  });

Answer 1

You need to choose your private network first.

StellarSdk.Network.use(new StellarSdk.Network('your_private_network_passphrase_here'))

Then create an instance of StellarSdk.Server using the link to your local Horizon server.

let stellarServer = new StellarSdk.Server('http://{horizon_instance_address}:{horizon_port}')

And after that you can proceed with your code.