nostr

Tools for structuring, processing and encoding things for the nostr protocol.

This covers almost everything found in go-nostr except rewritten in fully idiomatic Go and restructured for better readability and organisation for a more friendly developer experience.

nostr-sdk is also included as it contains useful tools for client developers and is required for the algia fork postr found in replicatr

The eventstore is also found in here, but with only the badger back end and the hand coded, badly written binary encoding format for events is replaced with the use of the Gob codec, which is fine for internal data stores used only by a Go based project.

Perhaps later a full implementation of a gRPC/protobuf form of the entire protocol will follow, as it has performance advantages over JSON and broadly supported even by javascript based applications.

There is not very much documentation apart from a moderate effort to put proper godoc comments on everything, better documentation will come later.

Currently there is a set of packages named after NIPs, these will be refactored to have human readable names in the future, and for the support of any downstream users of this library, the existing references will be maintained via the use of symlinks and aliases where applicable with deprecation notices added when this is done.

This repo is being released independently as a service to fellow nostr developers who also like to use Go, as it is becoming stable and has numerous bugs from go-nostr fixed and has been restructured to be easier to navigate.

Usage

Be aware that you should pick a specific semver version when importing, as the main branch is unstable. See here for current tags.

Currently this library is still a little unstable in general, probably not really strictly correct that it already has a v1 prefix, but it is a fork.

Technically it can be said that a v1.1.x version string implies instability, when the API is 100% stable (it mostly already is) we will bump it to v1.2.0.