• Start the required background services in docker:

   cd docker
   docker-compose build
   docker-compose up
  

  This will start the following services in containers:

  • bitcoin-core
  • lnd (for the containerized squeaknode)
  • lnd (for the host squeaknode) with ~/.lnd directory mounted.
  • a tor service
  • a tor socks proxy
  • a squeaknode (useful for testing p2p connections from your host machine)

  You can go to http://localhost:12995/ to see the containerized squeaknode.

You can also run your own squeaknode on your host machine.

• Install squeaknode:

   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   pip install .
  

• Copy the ~/.lnd directory from the docker container to your host machine.

   docker cp lnd_client:/root/.lnd/ ~/.lnd
  

• Run squeaknode with authentication disabled:

   SQUEAKNODE_WEBADMIN_ENABLED=TRUE \
   SQUEAKNODE_WEBADMIN_LOGIN_DISABLED=TRUE \
   SQUEAKNODE_WEBADMIN_ALLOW_CORS=TRUE \
   SQUEAKNODE_NETWORK=testnet \
   squeaknode --config config.ini
  

• Install protoc-gen-grpc-web (https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web#code-generator-plugin)
• Run the frontend react app in dev mode:

   cd frontend
   make rundev
  

• Lint the frontend code:

   node_modules/.bin/eslint .
  

  or

   node_modules/.bin/eslint . --fix
  

• To open a p2p connection from your host squeaknode to the containerized squeaknode, use localhost as host and 18557 as port.