Language Guides

Blink Store speaks a plain-text protocol over TCP. Any language with socket support can connect — no SDK, no driver, no library to install.

Each guide below includes a complete, copy-paste interactive client, a one-off command helper, and language-specific tips.

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Choose your language

Language	Guide	Dependencies
Python	Python guide	Standard library only
Node.js	Node.js guide	Standard library only
Go	Go guide	Standard library only
Shell	Shell (Bash) guide	bash + base64
Rust	Rust guide	base64 crate

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HTTP backends

Want to use Blink Store as a cache behind your HTTP API? See the HTTP Backend Pattern for complete server examples in Python, Node.js, Go, and Rust.

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Any other language?

Blink Store works with any language that can:

1. Open a TCP socket
2. Send a line of text (UTF-8, \n terminated)
3. Read a line of text back
4. Decode base64

See the Protocol Reference for the full specification. Here's the pattern in pseudocode:

sock = tcp_connect("127.0.0.1", 8765)
sock.send("SET mykey hello\n")
response = sock.readline()          // "OK"

sock.send("GET mykey\n")
response = sock.readline()          // "VALUE aGVsbG8="
value = base64_decode("aGVsbG8=")   // "hello"

Language	Socket API	Line reading	Base64 decode
Python	socket.socket()	.makefile('r').readline()	base64.b64decode()
Node.js	net.createConnection()	Buffer + split on \n	Buffer.from(b64, 'base64')
Go	net.Dial("tcp", addr)	bufio.ReadString('\n')	base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString()
Rust	TcpStream::connect()	BufReader::read_line()	base64::decode()
Java	new Socket(host, port)	BufferedReader.readLine()	Base64.getDecoder().decode()
C#	TcpClient	StreamReader.ReadLine()	Convert.FromBase64String()
Ruby	TCPSocket.new(host, port)	.gets	Base64.decode64()
PHP	fsockopen(host, port)	fgets()	base64_decode()