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A pure and powerful JavaScript library for Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is a powerful new peer-to-peer platform for the next generation of financial technology. The decentralized nature of the Bitcoin network allows for highly resilient bitcoin infrastructure, and the developer community needs reliable, open-source tools to implement bitcoin apps and services. Bitcore JavaScript Library provides a reliable API for JavaScript apps that need to interface with Bitcoin.
Clone the Bitcore monorepo and npm install
:
git clone https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore.git
npm install
cd
into bitcore-lib repository:
cd packages/bitcore-lib
To build a bitcore-lib full bundle for the browser:
gulp browser
This will generate files named bitcore-lib.js
and bitcore-lib.min.js
.
npm test
You can also run just the Node.js tests with gulp test:node
, just the browser tests with gulp test:browser
or create a test coverage report (you can open coverage/lcov-report/index.html
to visualize it) with gulp coverage
.
Some functionality is implemented as a module that can be installed separately:
We're using the Bitcore JavaScript Library in production, as are many others, but please use common sense when doing anything related to finances! We take no responsibility for your implementation decisions.
If you find a security issue, please email security@bitpay.com.
See CONTRIBUTING.md on the main bitcore repo for information about how to contribute.
Code released under the MIT license.
Copyright 2013-2022 BitPay, Inc. Bitcore is a trademark maintained by BitPay, Inc.
FAQs
A pure and powerful JavaScript Bitcoin library.
The npm package bitcore-lib receives a total of 36,446 weekly downloads. As such, bitcore-lib popularity was classified as popular.
We found that bitcore-lib demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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