What are the best Medium style developer guides for BTC? \ stacker news ~bitcoin

What are the best Medium style developer guides for BTC?

204 sats \ 12 comments \ @higuyslol 16 Apr 2022 bitcoin freebie

I almost never see 15-30 minute guides of how to integrate things into a project.

I imagine a future with titles like

Login with LN-auth in next.js
Build a storefront with bitcoin payments in React

Is the tech a little too difficult? I recently saw an egghead.io guide for NFTs on ETH (bleh)

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207 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlueSlime 16 Apr 2022

I'm working day and night on this very thing.

I'd like to see more practical demos and tech stacks that are turn-key. That way you can skip a lot of the boilerplate configuration and start tinkering out of the box.

My dream stack is a single dockerfile running bitcoin, lightning, tor, and node/flask with API integration out of the box. Paired with a signet node for hosting a private testnet with friends. This is what I'm working on currently.

Lightning Labs has a good introduction guide on their github for LND, with docker files to spin up lightning nodes.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @based 16 Apr 2022

I would suggest looking into building on or with nix-bitcoin instead of another project from scratch.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 16 Apr 2022

agree. While I'm not new to the space, relatively new to most indepth coding related things and keeping that learning curve moving requires quite a lot of searches.

I'm not much of a docker fan, though I can obviously see the benefits of using it to spin things up quickly. Prefer to learn basics of development stacks and work from the ground up, so I can get to where I want by learning the technologies.

There are good resources on setting up nodes and bitcoin specifically (obviously a big area in itself) but would love to find / work on guides for react, npm, js, rust as well as compiling, automating with lua or event-based scripting with shell, networking ..

I'm trying to keep all learning to publish something helpful, not quite there yet.

157 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 16 Apr 2022

@rheedi0 wrote this post on building a media store https://medium.com/@rheedio/a-crash-course-in-lightning-app-development-part-deux-51a8e48a4540

This guide https://docs.lightning.engineering/ by LL is also quite good.

There are probably others. But to be fair Lightning apps have maybe been decently easy to build for a little over a year so there aren’t many write ups yet. We definitly need more

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @higuyslol OP 16 Apr 2022

This is great. I’ve recently been digging through the stacker.news repo to see how things have been implemented here for things auth, tipping, etc.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @tobiTCOIN 17 Apr 2022 freebie

liked this one a lot ... made a little video about how to get it running

and another one how to extend it

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @peternguyen777 17 Apr 2022 freebie

this is a great resource. thankyou @rheedi0

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rheedi0 19 Apr 2022

Excellent. Glad it helped @peternguyen777

92 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 16 Apr 2022 freebie

Not many people are interested in being their own bank. They'd rather learn how to make fancy jpegs and print millions in fiat.

Experienced developers can figure out most things. Most devs are experienced. Most inexperienced devs are wanting to learn more marketable skills so they can get paid to become experienced.

Additionally, doing a video guide this early is risky because things are likely to change and editing videos is expensive.

Learn to read the documentation and ask questions in developer communities. Or make your own guide 😜

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @tobiTCOIN 17 Apr 2022 freebie

anyone interested in building a learning project together? We could start to create those guides. I'm not so experienced in the javascript stuff ... most of the time I struggle more with configuring and integrating things, not with the lighting related stuff.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @peternguyen777 17 Apr 2022 freebie

yes yes yes. ive been learning front end and have been looking far and wide for resources on lightning integration. other blockchains have so many tutorials.