Delightful JavaScript/TypeScript client for Polkadot & Polkadot SDK-based blockchains.
Dedot is the next-generation JavaScript client for Polkadot and Polkadot SDK-based blockchains. Designed to elevate the dapp development experience, Dedot is built & optimized to be lightweight and tree-shakable, offering precise Types & APIs suggestions for individual Polkadot SDK-based blockchain network and ink! Smart Contracts. Dedot also helps dapps efficiently connect to multiple chains simultaneously as we head toward a seamless multi-chain future.
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Check out Dedot documentation on the website: https://dedot.dev
npm i dedot # or yarn, pnpm
npm i -D @dedot/chaintypes
import { DedotClient, WsProvider } from 'dedot';
import type { PolkadotApi } from '@dedot/chaintypes';
const provider = new WsProvider('wss://rpc.polkadot.io');
const client = await DedotClient.new<PolkadotApi>(provider);
// Call rpc `state_getMetadata` to fetch raw scale-encoded metadata and decode it.
const metadata = await client.rpc.state_getMetadata();
console.log('Metadata:', metadata);
// Listen to best blocks
client.on('bestBlock', (block: PinnedBlock) => { // or 'finalizedBlock'
console.log(`Current best block number: ${block.number}, hash: ${block.hash}`);
});
// Query on-chain storage
const balance = await client.query.system.account(<address>);
console.log('Balance:', balance);
// Get pallet constants
const ss58Prefix = client.consts.system.ss58Prefix;
console.log('Polkadot ss58Prefix:', ss58Prefix);
// Call runtime api
const pendingRewards = await client.call.nominationPoolsApi.pendingRewards(<address>)
console.log('Pending rewards:', pendingRewards);
// Disconnect
// await client.disconnect();
Dedot take a lot of inspirations from project @polkadot/api. A big thank to all the maintainers/contributors of this awesome library.
Proudly supported by Web3 Foundation Grants Program.
FAQs
A delightful JavaScript/TypeScript client for Polkadot & Substrate
The npm package dedot receives a total of 638 weekly downloads. As such, dedot popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that dedot demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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