One wrinkle to using the bitcore stack is the obvious need to have a singleton bitcore-lib. The bitcoin-lib package hosts the bitcoind library and there are good reasons to not wanting to have multiple bitcoind instances running on the same machine.

However, I am not a fan of the runtime check and would rather have all packages be declaring bitcoin-lib in peerDependencies. This way the enclosing package can specify whatever version of bitcoin-lib it wants and npm will inform user if there is an unmet dependency at install time rather than run time.

I have a working example of bitcore-lib running as a peerDependency at bitcore-docker-build which is also running testnet at bitcore.soapbubble.online/insight

I also updated bitcore-lib to 0.14 because bitcore-wallet-service has already done so and I figured if it was good enough for bitcoin-wallet-service it's good enough for everything else 😄