LNRPC

Maintained fork of lnrpc adding support for generating typescript type definitions.

Features

• Auto-generates lnd/lnrpc client and typescript definitons based on target release tag
• Wraps requests in promises
• Easily setup SSL and Macaroons
• Instantiates all gRPC services
• uint64/int64 types cast to string

Installation

npm install @radar/lnrpc
# OR
yarn add @radar/lnrpc

Install lnd before using this project and ensure you have an lnd instance running with --no-macaroons, unless you provide macaroon authentication to your lnrpc instance when created.

Change LND gRPC release version

To change the gRPC definitions used for all auto-generated types and RPC methods edit the config.lnd_release_tag value in package.json to the desired LND release tag and run the following:

npm run generate
# OR
yarn generate

Newly generated type definitions will be available in ./generated.

Usage

Connecting to an lnd instance at localhost:10001.

import createLnRpc, {
  Invoice,
  InvoiceSubscription,
  WalletBalanceResponse
} from '@radar/lnrpc';

(async function() {
  const lnRpcClient = await createLnRpc();

  // All requests are promisified and typed
  const balanceResponse: WalletBalanceResponse = await lnRpcClient.walletBalance();

  // ...and you're off!
  console.log(balanceResponse.confirmedBalance);

  // subscribe to LND server events
  const subscriber = await lnRpcClient.subscribeInvoices();
  subscriber.on('data', (invoice: Invoice) => {
    console.log(invoice); // do something with invoice event
  });
})();

Options

import createLnRpc, {
  GetInfoResponse
} from '@radar/lnrpc';

(async function() {
  const lnRpcClient = await createLnRpc({
    /*
     By default lnrpc connects to `localhost:10001`,
     however we can point to any host.
     */
    server: '173.239.209.2:3001',

    /*
     By default  lnrpc looks for your tls certificate at:
     `~/.lnd/tls.cert`, unless it detects you're using macOS and
     defaults to `~/Library/Application\ Support/Lnd/tls.cert`
     however you can configure your own SSL certificate path like:
     */
    tls: './path/to/tls.cert',

    /*
     You can also provide a TLS certificate directly as a string
     (Just make sure you don't commit this to git).
     Overwrites: `tls`
     */
    cert: process.env.MY_SSL_CERT,

    /*
     Optional path to configure macaroon authentication
     from LND generated macaroon file.
     */
    macaroonPath: './path/to/data/admin.macaroon',

    /*
     Optional way to configure macaroon authentication by
     passing a hex encoded string of your macaroon file.
     Encoding: `xxd -ps -u -c 1000 ./path/to/data/admin.macaroon`
     Details: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/dc3db4b/docs/macaroons.md#using-macaroons-with-grpc-clients
     */
    macaroon: process.env.MY_MACAROON_HEX,
  });

  try {
    const getInfoResponse: GetInfoResponse = await lnRpcClient.getInfo();
    console.log(getInfoResponse);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
})();

API Reference

All lnrpc methods documentation can be found here.

Contributors

To develop on the project please run:

git clone git@github.com:RadarTech/lnrpc.git && cd $_


npm install
npm start
# OR
yarn
yarn start

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.