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@polkadot/api
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Warning - currently this does not actually do all that much, it is an attempt to put into code some thoughts about how to maintain the endpoints.
Installation -
npm install --save @polkadot/api
Initialisation -
import Api from '@polkadot/api';
const provider = new Api.HttpProvider('http://127.0.0.1:9933');
const api = new Api(provider);
Making calls -
api.chain
.getHeader('0x1234567890')
.then((header) => console.log(header))
.catch((error) => console.error(error));
For a list of currently exposed methods, see the jacogr/polkadot-js-jsonrpc/ repository.
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Promise and RxJS wrappers around the Polkadot JS RPC
The npm package @polkadot/api receives a total of 138,137 weekly downloads. As such, @polkadot/api popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @polkadot/api demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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