The Ethers Project
A complete, compact and simple library for Ethereum and ilk, written in TypeScript.
Features
- Keep your private keys in your client, safe and sound
- Import and export JSON wallets (Geth, Parity and crowdsale)
- Import and export BIP 39 mnemonic phrases (12 word backup phrases) and HD Wallets (English as well as Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese)
- Meta-classes create JavaScript objects from any contract ABI, including ABIv2 and Human-Readable ABI
- Connect to Ethereum nodes over JSON-RPC, INFURA, Etherscan, Alchemy, Ankr or MetaMask
- ENS names are first-class citizens; they can be used anywhere an Ethereum addresses can be used
- Tiny (~120kb compressed; 400kb uncompressed)
- Tree-shaking focused; include only what you need during bundling
- Complete functionality for all your Ethereum desires
- Extensive documentation
- Large collection of test cases which are maintained and added to
- Fully written in TypeScript, with strict types for security
- MIT License (including ALL dependencies); completely open source to do with as you please
Keep Updated
For the latest news and advisories, please follow the @ethersproject on Twitter (low-traffic, non-marketing, important information only) as well as watch this GitHub project.
For the latest changes, see the CHANGELOG.
Summaries
Installing
NodeJS
/home/ricmoo/some_project> npm install ethers
Browser (ESM)
The bundled library is available in the ./dist/ folder in this repo.
<script type="module">
import { ethers } from "./dist/ethers.min.js";
</script>
Documentation
Browse the documentation online:
Providers
Ethers works closely with an ever-growing list of third-party providers to ensure getting started is quick and easy, by providing default keys to each service.
These built-in keys mean you can use ethers.getDefaultProvider() and
start developing right away.
However, the API keys provided to ethers are also shared and are intentionally throttled to encourage developers to eventually get their own keys, which unlock many other features, such as faster responses, more capacity, analytics and other features like archival data.
When you are ready to sign up and start using for your own keys, please check out the Provider API Keys in the documentation.
A special thanks to these services for providing community resources:
Extension Packages
The ethers package only includes the most common and most core
functionality to interact with Ethereum. There are many other
packages designed to further enhance the functionality and experience.
- Hardware Wallets (@TODO)
License
MIT License (including all dependencies).