squeaknode/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md

development

Run in development mode:

Background services

• Start the required background services in docker:

  $ cd docker
  $ docker-compose build
  $ docker-compose up
  

  This will start the following services in containers:

  • bitcoin-core
  • lnd (for the containerized squeaknode)
  • lnd (for the host squeaknode) with ~/.lnd directory mounted.
  • a tor service
  • a tor socks proxy
  • a squeaknode (useful for testing p2p connections from your host machine)

  You can go to http://localhost:12995/ to see the containerized squeaknode.

Squeaknode backend

You can also run your own squeaknode on your host machine.

• Install squeaknode:

  $ virtualenv venv
  $ source venv/bin/activate
  $ pip install -r requirements.txt
  $ pip install .
  

• Make sure that ~/.lnd directory (created by docker container) has read permissions. You may need to change the permissions:

  $ sudo chmod -R 755 ~/.lnd/
  

• Run squeaknode with authentication disabled:

  $ SQUEAKNODE_WEBADMIN_ENABLED=TRUE \
  SQUEAKNODE_WEBADMIN_LOGIN_DISABLED=TRUE \
  SQUEAKNODE_WEBADMIN_ALLOW_CORS=TRUE \
  SQUEAKNODE_NETWORK=testnet \
  squeaknode --config config.ini
  

Squeaknode frontend

• Install protoc-gen-grpc-web (https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web#code-generator-plugin)
• Run the frontend react app in dev mode:

  $ cd frontend
  $ make rundev
  

Connect to the containerized squeaknode

• To open a p2p connection from your host squeaknode to the containerized squeaknode, use localhost as host and 18557 as port.