Web3 React

The Typescript SDK includes the @alephium/web3-react package that provides several react components and hooks to help with wallet connection and blockchain interaction in the React/Nextjs web interface.

First, we need to install the @alephium/web3-react package:

npm install --save @alephium/web3-react

Wallet Connection

To add a wallet connection button to our React/Nextjs app, simply wrap the app with the AlephiumWalletProvider component and add the AlephiumConnectButton component inside of it:

const App = () => {
  const displayAccount = (account: Account) => {
    const address = account.address
    return `${address.slice(0, 4)}...${address.slice(-4)}`
  }

  return (
    <AlephiumWalletProvider theme="retro" network='devnet' addressGroup=0>
      /* Our App */
      <AlephiumConnectButton displayAccount={displayAccount} />
    </AlephiumWalletProvider>
  );
}

The theme parameter for the AlephiumWalletProvider allows us to customize the look-and-feel of the wallet provider, you can view all available themes here. The network parameter specifies the blockchain network to which the wallet provider should connect. It must be one of the following values: devnet, testnet, or mainnet. The addressGroup parameter is optional. If specified, the wallet provider will connect to an address in the specified group, otherwise the wallet provider will connect to address from any group.

The displayAccount parameter in the AlephiumConnectButton component is used to specify the content displayed after the wallet is connected. By default, the connected address will be displayed.

Custom Connect Button

If the default AlephiumConnectButton component with its built-in customization cannot meet the requirements, we can customize our own component using AlephiumConnectButton.Custom:

import { AlephiumConnectButton } from '@alephium/web3-react'

function CustomWalletConnectButton = () => {
  return (
    <AlephiumConnectButton.Custom>
      {({ isConnected, disconnect, show, account }) => {
        return isConnected ? (
          <button onClick={disconnect}>
            Disconnect
          </button>
        ) : (
          <button onClick={show}>
            Connect
          </button>
        )
      }}
    </AlephiumConnectButton.Custom>
  )
}

For even more customization, we can use the useConnect hook, which is the used by AlephiumConnectButton under the hood:

import { useConnect } from 'alephium-web3'

function CustomConnectButton() {
  const { connect, disconnect } = useConnect()

  return (
    <button onClick={() => connect()}>Connect to Wallet</button>
  )
}

Custom Connect Provider

We have provided a detailed example to customize the connect provider.

Blockchain Interaction

Web3 React package offers a set of React hooks to help with the blockchain interaction.

useWallet

The useWallet hook returns the wallet account information and the connection status to the wallet:

import { useWallet, Wallet } from '@alephium/web3-react'

function Component() {
  const { account, connectionStatus, signer, nodeProvider, explorerProvider } = useWallet()

  if (connectionStatus === 'connecting') return <div>Connecting</div>
  if (connectionStatus === 'disconnected') return <div>Disconnected</div>

  // connected
  return <div>{account}</div>
}

If the return value is undefined, it indicates that the wallet is not connected. The returned wallet has the following fields:

• signer: we can use the signer to sign transactions
• account: this is the currently connected account
• nodeProvider: we can use it to communicate with the full node, note that this value may be undefined
• explorerProvider: we can use it to communicate with the explorer backend, note that this value may be undefined

useWalletConfig

The useWalletConfig hook returns the configurations of the connect button and utility functions to update those configurations:

import { useWalletConfig } from '@alephium/web3-react'

export function Component() {
  const { network, setNetwork, addressGroup, setAddressGroup } = useWalletConfig()

  return <div>
    <button onClick={() => setNetwork('testnet')}>Network: {network}</button>
    <button onClick={() => setAddressGroup(3)}>Address group: {addressGroup}</button>
  </div>
}

In the example above, it will set the current network to Testnet and address group to 3 after these buttons are clicked.

useBalance

After the wallet is connected, we can use the useBalance hook to query the balance of the connected address:

import { useBalance } from '@alephium/web3-react'

function Component() {
  const { balance, updateBalance, updateBalanceForTx } = useBalance()

  const submit = useCallback(() => {
    const txId = // submit tx
    updateBalanceForTx(txId)
  }, [])

  return <div>{balance.balanceHint}</div>
}

When users submit a transaction, the dApp may need to update the balance. We can use the updateBalanceForTx to accomplish this. updateBalanceForTx listens to the transaction status and updates the balance once the transaction is confirmed.

useTxStatus

we can use the useTxStatus hook to track the status of a transaction:

import { useTxStatus } from '@alephium/web3-react'

function Component() {
  const { txStatus } = useTxStatus(txId)
  const confirmed = useMemo(() => {
    return txStatus?.type === 'Confirmed'
  }, [txStatus])
}

The useTxStatus hook also accepts an optional callback parameter of type (txStatus: node.TxStatus) => Promise<any>, it will be called after each transaction status query.