Decred fork
A pure, powerful core for your bitcoin project.
Bitcore is a complete, native interface to the Bitcoin network, and provides the core functionality needed to develop apps for bitcoin.
#Principles
Bitcoin is a powerful new peer-to-peer platform for the next generation of financial technology. The decentralized nature of the Bitcoin network allows for highly resilient bitcoin infrastructure, and the developer community needs reliable, open-source tools to implement bitcoin apps and services.
Bitcore unchains developers from fallible, centralized APIs, and provides the tools to interact with the real Bitcoin network.
#Get Started
Bitcore runs on node, and can be installed via npm:
npm install bitcore
It is a collection of objects useful to bitcoin applications; class-like idioms are enabled via Soop. In most cases, a developer will require the object's class directly. For instance:
var bitcore = require('bitcore');
var Address = bitcore.Address;
var Transaction = bitcore.Transaction;
var PeerManager = bitcore.PeerManager;#Examples
Examples are provided here Build the examples by installing and running gulp:
npm install -g gulp
gulp
Javascript files available at /examples folder.
#Security
Please use at your own risk.
Bitcore is still under heavy development and not quite ready for "drop-in" production use. If you find a security issue, please email security@bitcore.io.
#Contributing
Bitcore needs some developer love. Please send pull requests for bug fixes, code optimization, and ideas for improvement.
#Browser support
To build bitcore full bundle for the browser (this is automatically executed after you run npm install):
node browser/build.js -a
This will generate a browser/bundle.js file which you can include in your HTML to use bitcore in the browser.
##Example browser usage
From example/simple.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<script src="../browser/bundle.js"></script>
<script>
var bitcore = require('bitcore');
var Address = bitcore.Address;
var a = new Address('1KerhGhLn3SYBEQwby7VyVMWf16fXQUj5d');
console.log('1KerhGhLn3SYBEQwby7VyVMWf16fXQUj5d is valid? '+a.isValid());
</script>
</body>
</html>You can check a more complex usage example at examples/example.html.
To build the main bitcore bundle, run:
node browser/build.js -m
To build all features into the bitcore bundle (which will lead to a large filesize), run:
node browser/build.js -a
To generate a customized bitcore bundle, you can specify which submodules you want to include in it with the -s option:
node browser/build.js -s lib/Transaction,lib/Address
This will generate a browser/bundle.js containing only the Transaction and Address class, with all their dependencies. Use this option if you are not using the whole bitcore library, to optimize the bundle size, s
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cript loading time, and general resource usage.
Run tests in node:
mocha
Or generate tests in the browser:
grunt shell
And then open test/index.html in your browser.
To run the code coverage report:
npm run-script coverage
And then open coverage/lcov-report/index.html in your browser.
#License
Code released under the MIT license.
Copyright 2013-2014 BitPay, Inc. Bitcore is a trademark maintained by BitPay, Inc.
