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Ethereum Cookbook

You're reading from   Ethereum Cookbook Over 100 recipes covering Ethereum-based tokens, games, wallets, smart contracts, protocols, and Dapps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133998
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manoj P R Manoj P R
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Smart Contract Development 3. Interacting with the Contract 4. The Truffle Suite 5. Tokens and ICOs 6. Games and DAOs 7. Advanced Solidity 8. Smart Contract Security 9. Design Decisions 10. Other Protocols and Applications 11. Miscellaneous 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Using MetaMask as an injected provider


MetaMask and the Mist browser can be used as a provider for the web3 object. These services expose the web3 API and allow your application to connect to an Ethereum node. In this recipe, you will learn to use Mist or MetaMask as an injected provider for your application, along with other options.

Getting ready

You need to have the MetaMask extension installed in your browser to try this recipe. MetaMask supports Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Brave browsers. Make sure that you are connected to your network of choice in MetaMask.

These scripts will also work with the Mist browser.

How to do it...

Now, we will start with the steps that are needed to use MetaMask as an injected provider:

  1. Initialize web3 using the provider object injected by the browser providers:
// For v0.2x.x
var web3 = new Web3(web3.currentProvider);

// For v1.x.x
varweb3=newWeb3(Web3.givenProvider);
  1. Check for existing providers to ensure that you are not overwriting the existing Mist or MetaMask...
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