jaonoctus / ln-app-workshop

Lightning Network App Workshop

Hello and welcome to the Lightning Network App Workshop. In this mini-tutorial we'll build a small lightning application to manage your Lightning Node. I've come up with this approach because I think it's the best way to bootstrap the basic knowledge you'll need as an Lightning Application Developer. Feel free to open pull requests and issues. I'm a little rusty on javascript development :P

Setup up

• Install Lightning Polar.
• Open polar and create a network.
• Spin up some Lightning Nodes.
• Play around with polar (open channels, pay invoices, etc...)
• Use the connect section to grab connection to fill up your .env (see env.sample)
  • LND_SOCKET -> GRPC Host
  • LND_CERT -> Base64 TLS Cert
  • LND_MACAROON -> Base64 Macaroon
• Install the dependencies with npm install on the server and client folder
• npm run dev on the server, npm run dev -- --open on the client.