Bootstrapping Nostr's layer2 with an indexing node.
ndxstr nodes are servers that pull events from multiple known relays, storing them forever-ish and making available to clients via API.
Modern applications may want:
- More advanced querying than currently supported by Nostr relays
- Receiving messages in a batch via API, not one at a time over a websocket
- Fewer expensive cryptographic operations done client-side (e.g. trusting an indexer to validate events)
- To retrieve large amounts of messages quickly+reliably via one API without caring about uptime/featuresets of multiple relays
- NodeJS
- TypeScript
- Postgres
- REST API
- Centralization - Need to avoid Infura-ization
- nostr-ts-relay - We reuse a lot of this code
- nostr - Main nostr repo