ethjs

A highly optimised, light-weight JS utility for Ethereum based on web3.js, but lighter, async only and using BN.js.

Only 106 kB minified!

Install

npm install --save ethjs

CDN

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ethjs@0.3.4/dist/ethjs.min.js"></script>

Note, exports to window.Eth global.

Usage

const Eth = require('ethjs');
const eth = new Eth(new Eth.HttpProvider('https://ropsten.infura.io'));

eth.getBlockByNumber(45300, true, (err, block) => {
  // result null { ...block data... }
});

const etherValue = Eth.toWei(72, 'ether');

// result <BN: 3e733628714200000>

const tokenABI = [{
  "constant": true,
  "inputs": [],
  "name": "totalSupply",
  "outputs":[{"name": "","type": "uint256"}],
  "payable": false,
  "type": "function",
}];

const token = eth.contract(tokenABI).at('0x6e0E0e02377Bc1d90E8a7c21f12BA385C2C35f78');

token.totalSupply().then((totalSupply) => {
  // result <BN ...>  4500000
});

// token.transfer( ... ).then(txHash => eth.getTransactionSuccess(txHash)).then(receipt => console.log(receipt));

About

A simple module for building dApps and applications that use Ethereum.

Please see our complete user-guide for more information.

Contributing

Please help better the ecosystem by submitting issues and pull requests to ethjs. We need all the help we can get to build the absolute best linting standards and utilities. We follow the AirBNB linting standard and the unix philosophy.

Guides

You'll find more detailed information on using ethjs and tailoring it to your needs in our guides:

• User guide - Usage, configuration, FAQ and complementary tools.
• Developer guide - Contributing to ethjs and writing your own code and coverage.
• Examples - Examples of ethjs in use.

Help out

There is always a lot of work to do, and will have many rules to maintain. So please help out in any way that you can:

• Create, enhance, and debug ethjs rules (see our guide to "Working on rules").
• Improve documentation.
• Chime in on any open issue or pull request.
• Open new issues about your ideas for making ethjs better, and pull requests to show us how your idea works.
• Add new tests to absolutely anything.
• Create or contribute to ecosystem tools.
• Spread the word!

Please consult our Code of Conduct docs before helping out.

We communicate via issues and pull requests.

Important documents

• Changelog
• Code of Conduct
• License

Our Relationship with Ethereum & EthereumJS

We would like to mention that we are not in any way affiliated with the Ethereum Foundation. However, we love the work they do and work with them often to make Ethereum great! Our aim is to support the Ethereum ecosystem with a policy of diversity, modularity, simplicity, transparency, clarity, optimization and extensibility.

Many of our modules use code from web3.js and the ethereumjs- repositories. We thank the authors where we can in the relevant repositories.

Special Thanks

ethjs was built by a strong community of Ethereum developers. A special thanks to:

• Fabian Vogelsteller - for his work on Mist and web3.js
• Tim Coulter - for his work on TestRPC and Truffle
• Aaron Davis - for his guidence and work on MetaMask and ethereumjs
• Richard Moore - for his work on ethers-io and ethers-wallet from which so much of ethjs is build from
• Karl Floersch - for his guidence and support
• Martin B. - for his work on ethereumjs
• Alex Beregszaszi - for his work on ethereumjs
• Vitalik Buterin - for creating Ethereum

Licence

This project is licensed under the MIT license, Copyright (c) 2016 Nick Dodson. For more information see LICENSE.md.

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Nick Dodson. nickdodson.com

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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