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TypeScript Interface for Ethereum

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Features

  • Abstractions over the JSON-RPC API to make your life easier
  • First-class APIs for interacting with Smart Contracts
  • Language closely aligned to official Ethereum terminology
  • Import your Browser Extension, WalletConnect or Private Key Wallet
  • Browser native BigInt, instead of large BigNumber libraries
  • Utilities for working with ABIs (encoding/decoding/inspection)
  • TypeScript ready (infer types from ABIs and EIP-712 Typed Data)
  • First-class support for Anvil, Hardhat & Ganache
  • Test suite running against forked Ethereum network

... and a lot more.

Overview

// 1. Import modules.
import { createPublicClient, http } from 'viem';
import { mainnet } from 'viem/chains';

// 2. Set up your client with desired chain & transport.
const client = createPublicClient({
  chain: mainnet,
  transport: http(),
});

// 3. Consume an action!
const blockNumber = await client.getBlockNumber();

Documentation

Head to the documentation to read and learn more about viem.

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Contributing

If you're interested in contributing, please read the contributing docs before submitting a pull request.

Authors

License

MIT License

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Install

npm i viem

Homepage

viem.sh

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Version

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License

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