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This guide is intended to help developers who want to contribute to xud. Developers who want to build on top of xud, should check out the API Documentation.

Contribution Guidelines

Be sure to read the Contribution Guidelines for the repository before starting to work or opening a Pull Request.

Recommended Development Environments

The following development environments are known to be compatible with xud and are recommended for developers that are unsure what tools to use.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform code editor that's compatible with most popular programming languages and extensible via a large collection of plug-ins.

Visual Studio Code Plugins

Consider using the following plugins for working with xud.

Visual Studio Code Environment Config

Adding the two files from this gist into a .vscode folder within the folder where you've cloned xud will automatically provide debug configurations and general settings that are helpful when developing xud.

xud Setup

Auto-restart xud on file change

Auto restart on every file change under dist folder with nodemon:

nodemon --watch dist -e js bin/xud

With some sample args disabling lndbtc/lndltc:

nodemon --watch dist -e js bin/xud --lndbtc.disable=true --lndltc.disable=true

Connect xud to the xud-simnet

We recommend to connect the xud instance you are developing on with the xud-simnet. Combined with above restarting mechanism, this lets you instantly see how your changes behave in a real-world trading environment.

  1. Create the following directory and config file to expose relevant ports for your xud to connect to:
xud@ubuntu:~$ mkdir -p ~/.xud-docker/simnet/
xud@ubuntu:~$ nano ~/.xud-docker/simnet/simnet.conf
# add these lines to set LNDBTC and LNDLTC to use the Neutrino light client
[lndbtc]
expose-ports = ["30009:10009"]
[lndltc]
expose-ports = ["31009:10009"]
[connext]
expose-ports = ["25040:5040"]
# CTRL+S, CTRL+X.
  1. Start the xud-simnet with default settings as described here.
  2. Once xud-simnet is up and running, exit from the opened xud ctl session by typing exit or open a second terminal.
  3. Stop the xud container with docker stop simnet_xud_1.
  4. Copy the simnet lndbtc & lndltc folders into some path that you can easily access. E.g. into your home directory:
sudo cp -R ~/.xud-docker/simnet/data/lndbtc ~/
sudo cp -R ~/.xud-docker/simnet/data/lndltc ~/
  1. Ensure that you own the copied folders:
sudo chown -R <youruser> ~/lndbtc
sudo chown -R <youruser> ~/lndltc
  1. Create/change xud.conf in ~/.xud to contain the following:
[lnd.BTC]
cltvdelta = 40
disable = false
host = "localhost"
nomacaroons = false
port = 30009
certpath = "/home/<youruser>/lndbtc/tls.cert"
macaroonpath = "/home/<youruser>/lndbtc/data/chain/bitcoin/simnet/admin.macaroon"
[lnd.LTC]
cltvdelta = 576
disable = false
host = "localhost"
nomacaroons = false
port = 31009
certpath = "/home/<youruser>/lndltc/tls.cert"
macaroonpath = "/home/<youruser>/lndltc/data/chain/litecoin/simnet/admin.macaroon"
[connext]
disable = false
host = "localhost"
port = 25040
  1. Now you can start your local xud instance and it should connect to the running xud-simnet docker environment. You can check that everything works with ~/xud/bin$ ./xucli -p 28886 getinfo. Ready to test your changes on xud-simnet!

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