We already have a web3 client instance. We can use the following API to gather information about the current node:

web3.eth.getNodeInfo(callback)

Let's see how this works in the React application that we are building:

1. Insert the following code right after creating the Web3 instance:

const web3 = new Web3('ws://localhost:7545');
console.log(web3);

web3.eth.getNodeInfo(function(error, result) {
    if (error) {
      console.error(error);
    } else {
      console.log('result', result);
    }
});

2. As soon as you run the application, the console log should contain the following information:

result EthereumJS TestRPC/v2.8.0/ethereum-js

You are making good progress so far. Let's display the node information in the user interface on startup. We are going to use the React Hooks feature for this.