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@taquito/beacon-wallet
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@taquito/taquito-beacon-wallet
is an npm package implementing the TZIP-10 standard that describes the communication between decentralized applications and wallets. The package provides developers a way to connect a dapp built with Taquito to a wallet giving the freedom to the users of the dapp to choose the wallet they want.
Install the package as follows
npm install @taquito/beacon-wallet
Create a wallet instance with defined option parameters and set the wallet provider using setWalletProvider
to the TezosToolkit
instance
import { TezosToolkit } from '@taquito/taquito';
import { BeaconWallet } from '@taquito/beacon-wallet';
const options = {
name: 'MyAwesomeDapp',
iconUrl: 'https://taquito.io/img/favicon.svg',
network: { type: 'ghostnet' },
enableMetrics: true,
};
const wallet = new BeaconWallet(options);
await wallet.client.subscribeToEvent(
BeaconEvent.ACTIVE_ACCOUNT_SET,
async (account) => {
// An active account has been set, update the dApp UI
console.log(`${BeaconEvent.ACTIVE_ACCOUNT_SET} triggered: `, account);
},
);
await wallet.requestPermissions();
const Tezos = new TezosToolkit('https://YOUR_PREFERRED_RPC_URL');
Tezos.setWalletProvider(wallet);
See the top-level https://github.com/ecadlabs/taquito file for details on reporting issues, contributing and versioning.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
FAQs
Beacon wallet provider
The npm package @taquito/beacon-wallet receives a total of 3,646 weekly downloads. As such, @taquito/beacon-wallet popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @taquito/beacon-wallet demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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