A basic demonstration web application that presents a simple chat room with a twist. To post a chat message, the client must pay a lightning network invoice given by the server.
With typical LN wallets, that's a slow manual process with QR scanning and confirmation dialogs. However, with a Moneysocket connection to facilitate the payments, this illustrates that it can be a seamless process.
A hosted instance of the app is running at socket.money/chat.
If you don't have a moneysocket wallet set up with a provider of some sort, you can still pay the invoices manually an it will work... but you're just lame, that's all.
Moneysocket is still new, under development and is Reckless with your money. Use this stuff at your own risk.
The Version number of this package and on the protocol is set to 0.0.0 for the time being since we anticipate that the protocol specifics will change in breaking ways prior to an 'official' release.
The server (under server/ depends on py-moneysocket which will need to be installed into your python environment prior to running the server.
The client has a set of npm dependencies specified in package.json that will need to be installed with npm install prior to building.
The client has a build process specified by the gulpfile.
For development, use $ gulp dev or $ gulp dev watch to build, which will point the client at localhost to find the chat server.
For production, use $ gulp prod to build, which will point the client at https://chat.socket.money.
The server, upon being run, will look for a configuration in the user's home directory at ~/.moneysocket-chat/moneysocket-chat.conf. this file will need to be placed there. An example config is provided here. The beacon to provide the invoices and the appropriate filesystem paths are particularly necessary to specify there.
Running the server can be done by running the serverd script:
$ ./serverd
The client, after being built with gulp, will be in the client/htdocs/ directory. A simple webserver for localhost devlopment should be sufficient.
$ cd client/htdocs
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 1234
And then your web browser can be pointed at localhost at this port.
$ firefox http://localhost:1234