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web3-react Documentation

• Overview
• Install
• web3-react@core API Reference
  • Web3ReactProvider
    • Props
    • Example
  • useWeb3React
    • Arguments
    • Example
  • createWeb3ReactRoot
    • Arguments
    • Example
  • getWeb3ReactContext
    • Arguments
    • Example
  • UnsupportedChainIdError
    • Example
• Understanding Error Bubbling

Overview

At a high level, web3-react is a state machine which ensures that certain key pieces of data (the user's current account, for example) relevant to your dApp are kept up-to-date. To this end, web3-react uses Context to efficiently store this data, and inject it wherever you need it in your application.

The data conforms to the following interface:

interface Web3ReactContextInterface<T = any> {
  activate: (
    connector: AbstractConnectorInterface,
    onError?: (error: Error) => void,
    throwErrors?: boolean
  ) => Promise<void>
  setError: (error: Error) => void
  deactivate: () => void

  connector?: AbstractConnectorInterface
  library?: T
  chainId?: number
  account?: null | string

  active: boolean
  error?: Error
}

The documentation that follows is for @web3-react/core, the package responsible for managing this context. To understand where the data itself comes from, head over to the connectors/ folder.

Install

• Grab a fresh copy of react@>=16.8...
  yarn add react

• ...and then install web3-react
yarn add @web3-react/core

web3-react@core API Reference

Web3ReactProvider

web3-react relies on the existence of a Web3ReactProvider at the root of your application (or more accurately, at the root of the subtree which you'd like to have web3 functionality). It requires a single getLibrary prop which is responsible for instantiating a web3 convenience library object from a low-level provider.

Props

getLibrary: (provider?: any, connector?: AbstractConnectorInterface) => any

Example

import { Web3ReactProvider } from '@web3-react/core'
// import your favorite web3 convenience library here

function getLibrary(provider, connector) {
  return new Web3Provider(provider) // this will vary according to whether you use e.g. ethers or web3.js
}

function App () {
  return (
    <Web3ReactProvider getLibrary={getLibrary}>
      {/* <...> */}
    </Web3ReactProvider>
  )
}

useWeb3React

If you're using Hooks (😇), useWeb3React will be your best friend. Call it from within any function component to access context variables, just like that. It accepts an optional key argument, if you're using multiple roots.

Arguments

key?: string

Example

import { useWeb3React } from '@web3-react/core'

function Component () {
  const web3React = useWeb3React()
  // ...
}

createWeb3ReactRoot

In some cases, your dApp may want to maintain >1 active web3 connections simultaneously. This could be for any number of reasons, including:

• Wanting "always-on" access to a remote node, while letting users bring their own accounts as necessary
• Communicating with a sidechain and mainnet in tandem
• Balancing an in-browser burner wallet with other connection methods

In cases like these, you'll likely want to create a second (or maybe even third, but probably not fourth) root, which will function exactly like another Web3ReactProvider (in fact, Web3ReactProvider uses createWeb3ReactRoot under the hood). It requires a key argument, used to identify the root to useWeb3React (or getWeb3ReactContext).

Arguments

key: string

Example

import { Web3ReactProvider, createWeb3ReactRoot } from '@web3-react/core'
// import your favorite web3 convenience library here

function getLibrary(provider) {
  return new Web3Provider(provider) // this will vary according to whether you use e.g. ethers or web3.js
}

const Web3ReactProviderReloaded = createWeb3ReactRoot('anotherOne')

function App () {
  return (
    <Web3ReactProvider getLibrary={getLibrary}>
      <Web3ReactProviderReloaded getLibrary={getLibrary}>
        {/* <...> */}
      </Web3ReactProviderReloaded>
    </Web3ReactProvider>
  )
}

getWeb3ReactContext

If you're not using Hooks (😳), getWeb3ReactContext is your savior. It gives direct access to the context returned by createContext, which will unlock the use of contextType in class components, the Context.Consumer pattern, or whatever other render prop/HOC/etc. shenanigans your manager whose personal site still runs on PHP is making you write. It accepts an optional key argument to identify the root.

Arguments

key?: string

Example

import { getWeb3ReactContext } from '@web3-react/core'

const web3ReactContext = getWeb3ReactContext()

// ...

UnsupportedChainIdError

This is an error which can be used to inform users that they're connected to an unsupported network.

Example

import { UnsupportedChainIdError } from '@web3-react/core'
// ...

function Component () {
  const { error } = useWeb3React()
  const isUnsupportedChainIdError = error instanceof UnsupportedChainIdError
  // ...
}

Understanding Error Bubbling

Errors that occur during the initial activation of a connector (i.e. inside activate), are are handled in 1 of 4 ways:

1. In the case where there's been 1 or more other updates to the web3-react context between when activate was called and when it resolved with the data required to complete the activation, errors are silently suppressed (in development mode, a warning will be logged to the console). This should really only happen in cases where activation takes a very long time and the user does something in the intervening time, such as activating another connector, deactivating the current connector, etc.
2. If throwErrors (the third argument to activate) is passed, errors will be thrown and should be handled in a .catch. No updates to the web3-react context will occur.
3. If onError (the second argument to activate) is passed, that function is called with the error. No updates to the web3-react context will occur.
4. Otherwise, the error will be set in the web3-react context (along with the connector).

Errors that occur while a connector is set are handled in 1 of 2 ways:

1. If an onError function was passed, this function is called with the error. No updates to the web3-react context will occur.
2. Otherwise, the error will be set in the web3-react context.

In all of these scenarios, note that calling setError will update the web3-react context. This can be called any time a connector is set, and it can be useful for e.g. manually triggering your app's handling of the web3-react error property.

Note: if an error is ever set in the web3-react context, and a connector triggers an update, the manager will attempt to revalidate all properties as if activate was called again, to recover from the error state.