A Bitcoin full node for building applications and services with Node.js. A node is extensible and can be configured to run additional services. At the minimum a node has native bindings to Bitcoin Core with the [Bitcoin Service](services/bitcoind.md). Additional services can be enabled to make a node more useful such as exposing new APIs, adding new indexes for addresses with the [Address Service](services/address.md), running a block explorer, wallet service, and other customizations.
Note: For your convenience, we distribute binaries for x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac OS X. Upon npm install, the binaries for your platform will be downloaded. For more detailed installation instructions, or if you want to compile the project yourself, then please see the [Build & Install](build.md) documentation to build the project from source.
This will create a directory with configuration files for your node and install the necessary dependencies. For more information about (and developing) services, please see the [Service Documentation](services.md).