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After our recent hiring trial (which I plan to write something about soon), a few years of having folks struggle getting setup contributing to SN's open source project, and asking what stackers' preferred local dev setups are, we developed sndev which allows you to run a fully featured SN developer environment locally in a single command.

Special thanks to @elvismercury for his expert, careful, repeated nudges of "I'm really curious how easy getting started on something like SN can be." Of course, never ending thanks to all of SN's open source contributors too.

The single command:

./sndev start

The sndev environment provides all the services we run in production but locally for development, spinning up an auto-mining auto-channel-forming lightning regtest network (you don't need polar anymore), database, search engine, image proxy, and mock s3, and populates the database and search engine with a big production-shaped 45-day seed.

sndev allows SN open source contributors to do things like login to local accounts with a single command:

./sndev login <some nym>

Fund their account paying a bolt11 regtest invoice:

./sndev fund <bolt11>

And much more as seen by issuing ./sndev help

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manages a docker based stacker news development environment

USAGE
  $ sndev [COMMAND]
  $ sndev help [COMMAND]

COMMANDS
  help            show help

  env:
    start         start env
    stop          stop env
    restart       restart env
    status        status of env
    delete        delete env

  sn:
    login         login as a nym

  lnd:
    fund          pay a bolt11 for funding
    withdraw      create a bolt11 for withdrawal

  db:
    psql          open psql on db
    prisma        run prisma commands

  dev:
    pr            fetch and checkout a pr
    lint          run linters

  other:
    compose       docker compose passthrough
    sn_lncli      lncli passthrough on sn_lnd
    stacker_lncli lncli passthrough on stacker_lnd

We'll be regularly refining and adding things to sndev. It's good enough I'll be using it exclusively for development myself now and @ek said he probably will too.

contribution awardscontribution awards

Contribution awards are live. I published the draft of these earlier this week, which haven't been changed, and they are now found in SN's Github README. The reward structure is definitely experimental still, and will require a lot of adjustment, but it's ready to begin running I think.

We also rewrote our README so that it mostly appears as a single page and elaborates on things more.

We're hoping these help stackers continue to make SN more of what they want it to be, begin FOSSing, and stack sats.