Creating Programmatic Payments with Bitcoin and Lightning

Hey fellow BTC enthusiasts I'm looking to dive into making payments through the lightning network, and possibly the bitcoin network later on, using some coding skills. As a developer with experience in NodeJs and Python, I'm ready to kick things off. From what I gather (and being a total beginner!), I plan to set up my own Lightning Node and work with that. I stumbled upon this link https://pypi.org/project/pylightning/ but I need more background on the whole process. If anyone knows of some articles or resources to help me get started with programming in NodeJs or Python for Lightning, I’d really appreciate it. Ultimately, I want to build an interface that lets me check my balance and send payments to multiple people at once. Thanks a bunch!

Here are the API docs for lnd: https://lightning.engineering/api-docs/api/lnd/ Here are the docs for clightning: https://docs.corelightning.org/docs/home

Thanks a lot for the information. I will start with that!