Nostr Web Client

#gm #pv my Nostriches. I have a Nostr development question this morning.

When storing nostr public keys in a database should I use the npub or the hex?

also is this missing any hashtags for a question like this? I'm gonna have more and want them to end up in the right place.

#asknostr #plebchain #grownostr

I store the raw bytes, not even hex. Depends on the db you use if it supports this

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Using postgres

The npub data should be the same as a uuid. To your database it shouldnt make a difference but according to nip-1 of the protocol it should be HEX.

“pubkey": <32-bytes lowercase hex-encoded public key of the event creator>

I would imagine a native json db like mongodb or duckdb would have better performance than postgres

Hrmm I just grabbed the stack most familiar with. Node/express postgres.

Believe it or not I've actually never worked with MongoDB. I've done a lot of AWS dynamodb development though are they similar?

Yeah dynamodb is similar to mongodb. Honestly, if you have experience with dynamodb then you should be good.

I find dynamo quirky and a pain to use their api/ db interface

I didn't tag you above because I assumed you were running around a fjord 🥹

Filesystems support raw bytes.