blitz_api

Configuration

Create a .env file with your bitcoind and lnd configuration. See the .env_sample file for all configuration options.

Please note that you will also need to install Redis.

If you need a easy option to run a simple bitcoind & lnd client, Polar makes that pretty easy.

Installation

You will need to have Python in version 3.7 installed and have the .env see Configuration configured correctly first.

⚠️ To setup a development environment for BlitzAPI skip to the Development section.

To install the dependencies, run

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt on Linux / macOS or

py -m pip install -r requirements.txt on Windows.

After that, you can run the application with

python -m uvicorn main:app --reload on Linux / macOS or

py -m uvicorn main:app --reload on Windows.

Development

For development it is recommended to have python-poetry installed. Install instructions can be found here

From within the blitz_api folder open a shell via poetry shell.

Install dependencies with all dev dependencies: poetry install

If any dependencies have changed it becomes necessary to freeze all requirements to requirements.txt:

poetry export -f requirements.txt --output requirements.txt

ℹ️ This will skip all dev dependencies by default.
This step is required to avoid having to install poetry for final deployment.