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Collection of comprehensive TypeScript libraries for Interaction with the Ethereum JSON RPC API and utility functions.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 2 stories, 15 comments · first 2017-10-03 · latest 2022-08-25

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  1. …library and will be added more frequently unless a team does a more optimal version from scratch https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/1178
    comment by yieldcrv · 2022-08-25 · in Median webpage size was 2.3 MB in July
  2. …called Ethereum, but other EVMs use this as well, things can be slightly different on other EVMs https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/v1.7.1/ The web3 concept extends beyond EVMs, as the term has mostly…
    comment by vmception · 2022-03-08 · in Is the U.S. Descending into Recession?
  3. …the projects that allow for you to interface with chains / wallets, I've used these: For ethereum: https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js For solana: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana-web3.js Essentially what it comes down to is a user…
  4. …and send funds to/otherwise engage with your contract. https://metamask.io https://eth.build https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js
  5. …minified+gzipped size has increased by 88% in the last 12 months alone. Full details in the issue: https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/1178#issuecommen...
  6. …want to build the future of the web on this junk pile? Holy cow this is a house of cards. [1] https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/1178
  7. web3 has existed since 2015, see here: https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/releases?page=14 How does it not exist to you?
    comment by almostkorean · 2021-12-09 · in Web3 Is Not Decentralization
  8. …don't like this vision of the web where everything is a transaction with a cost attached to it. [0] https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js
  9. …in 2.3mb of uncompressed JS which takes nearly a second to parse on a modern computer. - [1] https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/1178 I don't know what the answer here is, but I know when I was writing qbasic as a kid it wasn't…
  10. …https://www.trufflesuite.com/ganache for wallet integration, either of these work https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js https://github.com/ethers-io/ethers.js I highly recommend checking out The Graph too - it allows for you to leverage grap
  11. …browser for stuff like this, but it’s usually the extensions that are causing your problems. [1] https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/1178
  12. …check in on this issue every year or so and it never fails to delight and horrify in equal measure: https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/1178
    comment by josephg · 2021-01-16 · in Rust is a hard way to make a web API
  13. …sit on 256gb of ram, just because thats how much ram modern javascript frameworks use by then? [1] https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/issues/1178#issuecomment...
    comment by josephg · 2020-12-24 · in UX Issues with Notion
  14. It's the name of the ethereum JS library: https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/ The idea is that cryptocurrencies will represent the 3rd wave of the internet after web 2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 Although Tim Berners lee tried…
  15. …and install the Brave browser, which now has MetaMask built-in by default. https://metamask.io/ https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/ https://brave.com/