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Ethereum JavaScript API
This is the Ethereum compatible JavaScript API which implements the Generic JSON RPC spec. It's available on npm as a node module and also for bower and component as an embeddable js
Installation
Node.js
npm install ethereum.js
For browser
Bower
bower install ethereum.js
Component
component install ethereum/ethereum.js
- Include
ethereum.min.js
in your html file. - Include bignumber.js
Usage
Require the library:
var web3 = require('web3');
Set a provider (QtProvider, WebSocketProvider, HttpRpcProvider)
var web3.setProvider(new web3.providers.WebSocketProvider('ws://localhost:40404/eth'));
There you go, now you can use it:
var coinbase = web3.eth.coinbase;
var balance = web3.eth.balanceAt(coinbase);
For another example see example/index.html
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Contribute!
Requirements
- Node.js
- npm
- gulp (build)
- mocha (tests)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
Building (gulp)
npm run-script build
Testing (mocha)
npm test
Please note this repo is in it's early stage.
If you'd like to run a WebSocket ethereum node check out go-ethereum.
To install ethereum and spawn a node:
go get github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethereum
ethereum -ws -loglevel=4