Tutorial
Overview
This tutorial will get you up to speed with all the skills necessary to work
with lnd. We will be building a
Bitcoin micropayments paywall into a news site!
Those seeking more conceptual familiarity with the Lightning Network can read through the LND Overview and Developer Guide. It also contains a more in-depth explanation of the components covered in this tutorial, and includes best practices for integrating LND. It is not required knowledge for completing this tutorial, but we recommend that you at least skim through the guide before attempting to build your own app.
The tutorial assumes you have completed installation of Go, btcd, and lnd
on simnet. If not, the installation instructions will
guide you through the process.
Stages
Each of the different stages of this tutorial is oriented towards a specific skill. Beginners should start at stage 1. Otherwise, jump wherever you want below!
- Stage 1 - Setting up a local cluster
- How to set up a local environment with three nodes that can make payments with and through one another.
- Gain experience interacting with
lndfrom the command line.
- Stage 2 - Web Client
- How to run and use a
lndweb GUI.
- How to run and use a
- Stage 3 - RPC Client
- How to set up and interact with
lndfrom an RPC client, specificallygRPC. - Exposure to
lnrpcdocumentation - Set up web development workspace
- How to set up and interact with
- Stage 4 - Webapp Integration
- Adding a micropayments paywall
- Recommended next steps