Lighthouse's Backend Server

🌎 What is Lighthouse?

Lighthouse is the world's leading open metaverse navigation engine. Find friends, travel, and socialize in the spatial web.

🧬 Features

This mono repo contains the three main services of Lighthouse's backend:

• Discovery API: Responsible for serving data to the app, allowing them to discover what's happening across the different worlds.
• User API: Responsible for everything tied to users and their interactions with worlds and amongst each other.
• Content Gatherer: Responsible for getting data from external sources and storing it in the Lighthouse data stores.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to Lighthouse! Please see our contributing guidelines for more information.

🚦 Quick Start

To run, Lighthouse requires a valid GCP environment and subscriptions to different third parties.

• Node 20 (e.g. via nvm)
• git clone git@github.com:lighthouse-xyz/server.git
• Install dependencies
• Create a .env.local file by copying .env.local.sample
• Fill in the .env.local file with the missing credentials
• Run npm run start:dev to start the server