lightning-invoice-decoder

Decoding BOLT11 invoices is necessary when building Lightning wallets, payment processors, or invoicing tooling to verify payment requests and process amounts. It allows applications to reliably extract satoshis before initiating Lightning payments.

Yes, this Skill supports amountless Lightning invoices by validating the BOLT11 format and safely decoding the amount when present. It provides pure TypeScript functions to handle both standard and amountless invoices.

Yes, this Lightning invoice decoder works in Node.js and frontend TypeScript wallets because it is a pure TypeScript implementation with no external dependencies. You can import its validation and decoding functions directly.

The best way to parse BOLT11 invoice amounts for a Lightning payment processor is using a pure TypeScript implementation to validate the format and extract satoshis. This approach avoids external dependencies while providing reliable decoding.