Documentation and more detailed overview is still in the works. Meanwile to start a test environment that runs the latest progress of work run:

$ docker-compose up --build

To run web3 tests that send transactions to the chain through RPC run:

$ cd client/js
$ npx tsc

then

$ cd test/scenarios
$ node index.js http://<public-ip>:8080

where <public-ip> is the IP through which services in the docker container can be reached. This IP can be checked by pointing a web browser to http://<public-ip>:8080/info and checking if you get a JSON response with info about the running chain.