viem

TypeScript Interface for Ethereum

Features

- Abstractions over the JSON-RPC API to make your life easier
- First-class APIs for interacting with Smart Contracts
- Language closely aligned to official Ethereum terminology
- Import your Browser Extension, WalletConnect or Private Key Wallet
- Browser native BigInt, instead of large BigNumber libraries
- Utilities for working with ABIs (encoding/decoding/inspection)
- TypeScript ready (infer types from ABIs and EIP-712 Typed Data)
- First-class support for Anvil, Hardhat & Ganache
- Test suite running against forked Ethereum network

... and a lot more.

Overview

``ts
// 1. Import modules.
import { createPublicClient, http } from 'viem';
import { mainnet } from 'viem/chains';

// 2. Set up your client with desired chain & transport.
const client = createPublicClient({
chain: mainnet,
transport: http(),
});

// 3. Consume an action!
const blockNumber = await client.getBlockNumber();
``

Documentation

Head to the documentation to read and learn more about viem.

Community

Check out the following places for more viem-related content:

- Follow @wevm_dev, @_jxom, and @awkweb on Twitter for project updates
- Join the discussions on GitHub
- Share your project/organization that uses viem

Support

- GitHub Sponsors
- Gitcoin Grant
- wevm.eth

Sponsors

Contributing

If you're interested in contributing, please read the contributing docs before submitting a pull request.

Authors

- @jxom (jxom.eth, Twitter)
- @tmm (awkweb.eth, Twitter)

License

MIT License