blog/source/docs/contracts_javascript.md

title: Smart Contracts in JavaScript layout: docs

In order to talk to our deployed Smart Contracts through a web application, we typically need a JavaScript equivalent that offers APIs to make this possible. Embark generates JavaScript artifacts for all Smart Contracts used by our application.

In this guide we'll take a quick look how to make use of them!

Importing and using Smart Contracts

Embark will automatically generate artifacts for all configured Smart Contracts in our application, making them available to an application's front-end. Allwe have to do is importing them accordingly. For example, the Smart Contract below:

contract SimpleStorage {
  uint public storedData;

  function SimpleStorage(uint initialValue) {
    storedData = initialValue;
  }

  function set(uint x) {
    storedData = x;
  }
  function get() constant returns (uint retVal) {
    return storedData;
  }
}

Will available as JavaScript object, after artifact generation and can be imported as:

import { SimpleStorage } from './embarkArtifacts/contracts';

Notice that the exact path to the Smart Contract source is configured using the generationDir property in Embark's configuration.

Once imported, Smart Contract APIs can be used as needed. The code below uses Web.js syntax and might differ from your APIs, depending on what web3 connector you've installed.

SimpleStorage.methods.set(100).send();

SimpleStorage.methods.get().call().then(value => {
  console.log(value);
});

SimpleStorage.methods.storedData().call().then(value => {
  console.log(value);
});