Lighstorm

⚠️ Warning: Early-stage, breaking changes are expected.

API for interacting with a Lightning Node.

Lighstorm::Lightning::Channel.mine.first.myself.node.alias

Index

• About
• Usage
  • Documentation
  • Tutorials and Articles
• Development

About

Lighstorm is an opinionated abstraction layer on top of the lnd-client.

It brings an object-oriented approach for interacting with a Lightning Node, influenced by the Active Record Pattern and Active Record Models conventions.

However, despite the fluidity of Object Orientation being desired in its public interface, internally, most of its code is structured following the Hexagonal Architecture and Functional Programming principles.

It aims to be intuitive to use while being highly reliable, as it deals with people's money, and easily testable since its tests are the foundation for its reliability.

Although it tries to stay close to Lightning's terminologies, it brings its own vocabulary and data modeling, optimizing for programmer happiness.

Usage

Add to your Gemfile:

gem 'lighstorm', '~> 0.0.16'

require 'lighstorm'

# lndconnect
Lighstorm.connect!(
  'lndconnect://127.0.0.1:10009?cert=MIICJz...JBEERQ&macaroon=AgEDbG...45ukJ4'
)

# File Path
Lighstorm.connect!(
  address: '127.0.0.1:10009',
  certificate_path: '/lnd/tls.cert',
  macaroon_path: '/lnd/data/chain/bitcoin/mainnet/admin.macaroon'
)

puts Lighstorm.version # => 0.0.16

Lighstorm::Lightning::Node.myself.alias # => icebaker/old-stone

Lighstorm::Lightning::Invoice.create(
  description: 'Coffee',
  amount: { millisatoshis: 1_000 },
  payable: 'once'
)

Lighstorm::Lightning::Invoice.decode('lnbc20m1pv...qqdhhwkj').pay

Lighstorm::Lightning::Invoice.decode('lnbc20m1pv...qqdhhwkj').pay(
  fee: { maximum: { millisatoshis: 1000 } }
)

Lighstorm::Satoshis.new(
  millisatoshis: 75_621_650
).satoshis # => 75_621

Check the full documentation.

Tutorials and Articles

• Getting Started with Lightning Payments in Ruby

Development

Check the development documentation.