@arowanadao/typechain
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🔌 TypeScript bindings for Ethereum smartcontracts
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npm install @arowanadao/typechain
🔌 TypeScript bindings for Ethereum smart contracts
Used by the best:
Soft deprecation notice
I now consider TypeChain to be legacy software and no longer use it personally. The ecosystem around
Abitype, Wagmi,
Viem got really good and it provides a superior Developer Experience by parsing
ABIs directly within the TypeScript type system.
Hardhat can also be used with Viem. I recommend giving it
a try!
Critical fixes will be merged, but active development should not be expected. Thanks for all these years!
Features ⚡
- static typing - you will never call not existing method again
- IDE support - works with any IDE supporting Typescript
- extendible - work with many different tools: ethers.js, hardhat, truffle, Web3.js or you can create your own
target
- frictionless - works with simple, JSON ABI files as well as with Truffle/Hardhat artifacts
Installation
``bash`
npm install --save-dev typechain
You will also need to install a desired target for example @typechain/ethers-v6. Learn more about targets
_Take note, that code generated by TypeChain requires TypeScript version 4.3 or newer._
Packages 📦
| Package | Version | Description | Examples |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| typechain |  | Core package | - |
| @typechain/ethers-v6 |  | Ethers ver 6 support (⚠️ requires TS 4.0 >=) | example |
| @typechain/hardhat |  | Hardhat plugin | example-ethers example-truffle |
|
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TypeChain generates only TypeScript typings (d.ts) files, if you're looking for "opinionated", "batteries included"eth-sdk
solution check out our new project: eth-sdk. It generates typesafe, ready to
use ethers.js wrappers and uses etherscan/sourcify to automatically get ABIs based only on smart contract addresses.
Under the hood, relies on TypeChain.
Usage
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_Note: If you use hardhat just use
hardhat plugin._
`
typechain --target=(ethers-v5|ethers-v6|truffle-v4|truffle-v5|web3-v1|path-to-custom-target) [glob]
- glob - pattern that will be used to find ABIs, remember about adding quotes: typechain "*/.json", examples:./abis/*/.abi
, ./abis/?(Oasis.abi|OasisHelper.abi).--target
- - ethers-v5, ethers-v6, truffle-v4, truffle-v5, web3-v1 or path to your custom target. Typechain will try@typechain/${target}
to load package named: , so make sure that desired package is installed.--out-dir
- (optional) - put all generated files to a specific dir.--always-generate-overloads
- (optional) - some targets won't generate unnecessary types for overloaded functions by--discriminate-types
default, this option forces to always generate them
- (optional) - ethers-v5 and ethers-v6 will add an artificial field contractName that helps
discriminate between contracts
TypeChain always will rewrite existing files. You should not commit them. Read more in FAQ section.
Example:
`
typechain --target ethers-v6 --out-dir app/contracts './node_modules/neufund-contracts/build/contracts/*.json'
Videos
Getting started 📚
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Interacting with blockchain in Javascript is a pain. Developers need to remember not only a name of a given smart
contract method or event but also it's full signature. This wastes time and might introduce bugs that will be triggered
only in runtime. TypeChain solves these problems (as long as you use TypeScript).
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TypeChain is a code generator - provide ABI file and name of your blockchain access library (ethers/truffle/web3.js) and
you will get TypeScript typings compatible with a given library.
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Install TypeChain with npm install --save-dev typechain and install desired target.
Run typechain --target=your_target (you might need to make sure that it's available in your path if you installed it.abi
only locally), it will automatically find all files in your project and generate Typescript classes based ontypechain --target=your_target "*/.abi.json"
them. You can specify your glob pattern: . node_modules are always
ignored. We recommend git ignoring these generated files and making typechain part of your build process.
That's it! Now, you can simply import typings, check out our examples for more details.
Targets 🎯
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Use ethers-v6 target to generate wrappers for ethers.js lib. To make it
work great with Hardhat, use Hardhat plugin.
If you use nodenext aka node16modules flip the flag --node16-modules to generate compatible typings.
If you are using Ethers.js v5, use the @typechain/ethers-v5 target.
If you're using Ethers.js v4, you can find legacy @typechain/ethers-v4 target ondb551b5
npm and commit.
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If you provide solidity artifacts rather than plain ABIs as an input, TypeChain can generate NatSpec comments directly
to your typings which enables simple access to docs while coding.
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This might be useful when you're creating a library for users of your smartcontract and you don't want to lock yourself
into any API provided by Web3 access providing library. You can generate basically any code (even for different
languages than TypeScript!) that based on smartcontract's ABI.
FAQ 🤔
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A: _NO_ — we believe that no generated files should go to git repository. You should git ignore them and make
typechain run automatically for example in post install hook in package.json:
`
"postinstall":"typechain"
When you update ABI, just regenerate files with TypeChain and Typescript compiler will find any breaking changes for
you.
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A: You can create your own target and generate basically any code.
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A: We will automatically format generated classes with prettier to match your coding preferences (just make sure to.prettierrc
use file).
Furthermore, TypeChain will silent eslint and tslint errors for generated files.
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`typescript
import { runTypeChain, glob } from 'typechain'
async function main() {
const cwd = process.cwd()
// find all files matching the glob
const allFiles = glob(cwd, [${config.paths.artifacts}/!(build-info)/**/+([a-zA-Z0-9_]).json])
const result = await runTypeChain({
cwd,
filesToProcess: allFiles,
allFiles,
outDir: 'out directory',
target: 'target name',
})
}
main().catch(console.error)
`
If you don't care about incremental generation just specify the same set of files for filesToProcess and allFiles`.
For incremental generation example read the source code of
hardhat plugin.
Contributing
Check out our contributing guidelines