khatru

a framework for making Nostr relays

write your custom relay with code over configuration

It's a library

This is not an executable that you have to tweak with config files, it's a library that you import and use, so you just write code and it does exactly what you want.

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It's very very customizable

Run arbitrary functions to reject events, reject filters, overwrite results of queries, perform actual queries, mix the relay stuff with other HTTP handlers or even run it inside an existing website.

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It plugs into event stores easily

khatru's companion, the `eventstore` library, provides all methods for storing and querying events efficiently from LMDB, BoltDB and others.

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It supports NIP-42 AUTH

You can check if a client is authenticated or request AUTH anytime, or reject an event or a filter with an "auth-required:" and it will be handled automatically.

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It supports NIP-86 Management API

You just define your custom handlers for each RPC call and they will be exposed appropriately to management clients.

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It's written in Go

That means it is fast and lightweight, you can learn the language in 5 minutes and it builds your relay into a single binary that's easy to ship and deploy.

A glimpse of `khatru`'s power

It allows you to create a fully-functional relay in 7 lines of code:

func main() {
	relay := khatru.NewRelay()
	db := boltdb.BoltBackend{Path: "/tmp/khatru-bolt-tmp"}
	db.Init()
	relay.UseEventStore(db, 400)
	http.ListenAndServe(":3334", relay)
}

After that you can customize it in infinite ways. See the links above.