alby-tools

Lightning Web SDK

An npm package that provides useful and common tools and helpers to build lightning web applications.

🚀 Quick Start

npm install alby-tools

or

yarn add alby-tools

🤙 Usage

Lightning Address

The LightningAddress class provides helpers to work with lightning addresses

import { LightningAddress } from "alby-tools";

const ln = new LightningAddress("[e-mail]");

// fetch the LNURL data
await ln.fetch();

// get the LNURL-pay data:
console.log(ln.lnurlpData); // returns a [LNURLPayResponse](https://github.com/getAlby/alby-tools/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1-L15)
// get the keysend data:
console.log(ln.keysendData);

Get an invoice:

import { LightningAddress } from "alby-tools";

const ln = new LightningAddress("[e-mail]");

await ln.fetch();
// request an invoice for 1000 satoshis
// this returns a new `Invoice` class that can also be used to validate the payment
const invoice = await ln.requestInvoice({satoshi: 1000}); 

console.log(invoice.paymentRequest); // print the payment request
console.log(invoice.paymentHash); // print the payment hash

Verify a payment

import { LightningAddress } from "alby-tools";
const ln = new LightningAddress("[e-mail]");
await ln.fetch();

const invoice = await ln.requestInvoice({satoshi: 1000});

// if the LNURL providers supports LNURL-verify:
const paid = await invoice.verifyPayment(); // returns true of false
if (paid) {
  console.log(invoice.preimage);
}

// if you have the preimage for example in a WebLN context
await window.webln.enable();
const response = await window.webln.sendPayment(invoice.paymentRequest);
const paid = invoice.validatePreimage(response.preimage); // returns true or false
if (paid) {
  console.log('paid');
}

// or use the convenenice method: 
await invoice.isPaid();

It is also possible to manually initialize the Invoice

const { Invoice } = require("alby-tools");

const invoice = new Invoice({paymentRequest: pr, preimage: preimage});
await invoice.isPaid();

Boost a LN address:

You can also attach additional metadata information like app name, version, name of the podcast which is boosted etc. to the keysend payment.

import { LightningAddress } from "alby-tools";
const ln = new LightningAddress("[e-mail]");
await ln.fetch();

const boost = {
  action: "boost",
  value_msat: 21000,
  value_msat_total: 21000,
  app_name: "Podcastr",
  app_version: "v2.1",
  feedId: "21",
  podcast: "random podcast",
  episode: "1",
  ts: 2121,
  name: "Satoshi",
  sender_name: "Alby",
}
await ln.boost(boost);

Zapping a LN address on Nostr:

Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables truly censorship-resistant and global value-for-value publishing on the web. Nostr integrates deeply with Lightning. more info

alby-tools provides helpers to create zaps

import { LightningAddress } from "alby-tools";
const ln = new LightningAddress("[e-mail]");
await ln.fetch();

if (!ln.nostrPubkey) {
  alert('No nostr pubkey available'); // seems the lightning address is no NIP05 address
}

const zapArgs = {
  satoshi: 1000,
  comment: "Awesome post",
  relays: ["wss://relay.damus.io"],
  e: "44e1827635450ebb3c5a7d12c1f8e7b2b514439ac10a67eef3d9fd9c5c68e245"
}

// in one go with WebLN
const response = await ln.zap(zapArgs); // generates a zap invoice
console.log(response.preimage); // print the preimage

// or manually
const invoice = await ln.zapInvoice(zapArgs); // generates a zap invoice
console.log(invoice.paymentRequest); // print the payment request
await invoice.isPaid(); // check the payment status as descibed above

💵 Fiat conversions

Helpers to convert sats values to fiat and fiat values to sats.

getFiatValue(satoshi: number, currency: string): number

Returns the fiat value for a specified currrency of a satoshi amount

getSatoshiValue(amount: number, currency: string): number

Returns the satoshi value for a specified amount (in the smallest denomination) and currency

getFormattedFiatValue(satoshi: number, currency: string, locale: string): string

Like getFiatValue but returns a formatted string for a given locale using JavaScript's toLocaleString

Examples

await getFiatValue(satoshi: 2100, currency: 'eur');
await getSatoshiValue(amount: 100, currency: 'eur'); // for 1 EUR
await getFormattedFiatValue(stoshi: 2100, currency: 'usd', locale: 'en')

🤖 Lightning Address Proxy

alby-tools uses a proxy to simplify requests to lightning providers.

• Many ln addresses don't support CORS, which means fetching the data directly in a browser environment will not always work.
• Two requests are required to retrieve lnurlp and keysend data for a lightning address. The proxy will do these for you with a single request.

You can disable the proxy by explicitly setting the proxy to false when initializing a lightning address:

const lightningAddress = new LightningAddress("[e-mail]", {proxy: false});

🛠 Development

yarn install
yarn run build