Nostr Web Client

coolest thing about building on #nostrdb is that it comes with command-line tools and a portable database that is just a single file.

you can copy your nostrdb node from damus-ios to notedeck and back and it will just work (todo: actually implement ios export). it has all of your nostr data, contacts, profiles, bookmarks, notes, mutelists, decks, everything! It also includes a fulltext search and relay index.

sure you can use relays for this, but its nice to have a local copy you can backup and redistribute later.

eventually your nostrdb nodes will just automatically sync so you don't have to do this manually.

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Justin Moon 9mo ago

Let's say I want to write a little rust CLI that just stores like "notes to self" as nostr notes with some random kind, and saves them to my relays.

What crates should I use? enostr? Fine with forking it if some small things need changing? Or https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr/tree/master/crates/nostr-sdk with `ndb` feature (cc nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6tcqyp5dsyt9jxqspd76g07z3a73lsf923rxuyg43p4eu7anymm9a3p8ycr9xgs )?

Want to make a nostr thing this week and would like to try out nostrdb while I'm at it ...

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jb55 9mo ago

nostr-sdk is probably better setup to do that. nostrdb is more for building high-performance apps on top of. I haven't focused too much on dev docs.

Justin Moon 9mo ago

Cool -- my goal would eventually be to build "high performance apps" but I need to start somewhere ...

jb55 9mo ago

if you want raw performance using nostrdb-rs directly is best, since when nostr-sdk wraps it, it kills the perf as it is no longer zero-copy.

jb55 9mo ago

the enostr stuff is old and crufty. i was working on a networking side of nostrdb at one point but it fell by the wayside for the time being

https://github.com/damus-io/nostrdb-rs/pull/32

Justin Moon 9mo ago

Very helpful. Thanks for explaining!

jb55 9mo ago

the main point of enostr/nostrdb_net is to avoid parsing json twice, enostr basically just barely and badly parses some high level tokens (OK, EOSE, AUTH, etc, subscription ids, etc) without parsing the json. then it passes the websocket &str directly to nostrdb for processing.

Justin Moon 9mo ago

Also extremely helpful! Makes a ton of sense.

Yuki Kishimoto 9mo ago

nostr:nprofile1qqsprwdgjszdhucrfelp3p46nhzvd5mk7gu6zxp8r0fwc4n63zv9pnsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0rqtknc, yeah, you can use nostrdb APIs directly for the zero-copy queries and nostr-sdk for the networking stuff.

You can eventually clone the nostrdb instance and pass it to nostr-sdk just to automatically save the events received from the relays into nostrdb.