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 (QtSyncProvider, HttpSyncProvider)

web3.setProvider(new web3.providers.HttpSyncProvider());

There you go, now you can use it:

var coinbase = web3.eth.coinbase;
var balance = web3.eth.getBalance(coinbase);

For another example see example/index.html.

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Requirements

• Node.js
• npm

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

Testing (karma)

Karma allows testing within one or several browsers.

npm run-script karma # default browsers are Chrome and Firefox
npm run-script karma -- --browsers="Chrome,Safari" # custom browsers

Please note this repo is in it's early stage.

If you'd like to run a Http ethereum node check out cpp-ethereum.

Install ethereum and spawn a node:

eth -j