# mercury-node
The mercury node that powers the front end wallet ui for handling lightning transactions/payments. The front end can be found here.
mercury-node needs a bitcoin core client running and a electrum client. We use Polar (Lightning Node) instead. Ensure that the setup file matches the connection values in Polar.
| Plugin | Link | Setup file |
|---|---|---|
| Polar | Polar Lightning | src/LDK/bitcoin_clients/ElectrumClient.mts |
| File | Explanation |
|---|---|
| src/LDK/init/initialiseLDK.ts | Builds the node and returns a LightningClient |
| src/server.ts | Starts the express server with LightningClient |
| src/LDK/LightningClient.ts | The class that has access to the running node |
| src/routes/ | The express server routes that can be called which run LightningClient methods |
| src/debug_lightning.ts | A debug file to run commands directly rather than through web api |
mercury-node requires Node.js to run.
Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.
cd mercury-node
npm i
npm start