I recommend that you take it one step further and setup both bitcoin and lightning.

Start by running on the test net so you can play around with sending and receiving with no risk at all.

Here is a nice project in nodejs, it shows how to use all bitcoin and lightning commands via API calls and displaying the result in a nice interactive dashboard:

https://github.com/altangent/lnd-explorer

Here is an example of how it looks like:

https://demo1.lndexplorer.com/