create a stellar application without installing stellar core in local system

Question

I want to create a stellar application which will have these functionality

• Account creation
• XLM Balance checking
• Doing Transaction
• XLM Receive notification

I have read stellar documenation https://www.stellar.org/developers/

Based on that i have generated keys:

var pair = StellarSdk.Keypair.random();
pair.secret();
pair.publicKey();

And to create account i hit this url in browser

https://friendbot.stellar.org?addr=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

How can i create a account in livenet without installing stellar-core

I did't find any livenet endpoint in stellar docs

Answer 1

To create accounts you create a transaction containing a createAccount operation.

https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/concepts/list-of-operations.html#create-account

Friendbot is only there to give you an initial sum of testnet XLMs. Nothing else.

Answer 2

You don't need to directly access Stellar Core, if you just want the above functionalities.

Use the livenet Horizon endpoint would be sufficient:

https://horizon.stellar.org/

For pre-built UI version, use the Laboratory: https://www.stellar.org/laboratory/

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To see JS example code for your target actions, refer to https://www.stellar.org/developers/js-stellar-base/reference/base-examples.html

NOTE: StellarSdk.Network.useTestNetwork(); is for TESTNET, so you need to change it to something like StellarSdk.Network.usePublicNetwork();

p.s. I'd recommend trying first with testnet and observe if your calls match with the expected behaviour first.