useSigner

Use signer is a React Hook designed to provide convenient access to a web3modal.

Features

• Select a wallet from the available ones
• Disconnect from a wallet
• Get access to an ethers.js Signer and Provider
• Get the wallet address, the network chainId and the current wallet status

Get started

Install the library on your project:

npm install use-signer

Usage

Add the provider at the root of your React app

import { useSigner, UseSignerProvider } from "use-signer";
import { IProviderOptions } from "web3modal";

const App = () => {
  return (
    <UseSignerProvider>
      <AppBody />
    </UseSignerProvider>
  );
};

Optionally, parameterize the wallets shown by web3modal:

import { useSigner, UseSignerProvider } from "use-signer";
import { IProviderOptions } from "web3modal";
import WalletConnectProvider from "@walletconnect/web3-provider";

const App = () => {
  const DEFAULT_CHAIN_ID = 1;
  // Customize the wallets you support
  // See: https://github.com/Web3Modal/web3modal#custom-provider
  const providerOptions: IProviderOptions = {
    metamask: {
      // custom settings
    }
    walletconnect: {
      package: WalletConnectProvider,
      options: {
        infuraId: "1234...",
      },
    },
  };
  return (
    <UseSignerProvider providerOptions={providerOptions} defaultChainId={1}>
      <AppBody />
    </UseSignerProvider>
  );
};

Use the hook on any child component:

const AppBody = () => {
  const { provider, signer, status, address, chainId, methods } = useSigner();

  const onClickSelect = () => {
    const cacheProvider = true;
    const networkId = "mainnet";
    methods.selectWallet(cacheProvider, networkId); // cacheProvider and networkId are optional
  }
  const onClickDisconnect = () => methods.disconnect();

  return (
    <div style={{ fontFamily: "sans-serif" }}>
      <h2>Use Signer example</h2>

      <p>{provider ? "Provider available" : "No provider"}</p>
      <p>{signer ? "Signer available" : "No signer"}</p>
      <p>Status: {status}</p>
      <p>Address: {address}</p>
      <p>Chain ID: {chainId}</p>

      <div>
        {status === "disconnected"
          ? <button onClick={onClickSelect}>Connect wallet</button>
          : status === "connected"
          ? <button onClick={onClickDisconnect}>Disconnect</button>
          : <span>Connecting...</span>}
      </div>
    </div>
  );
};

Methods

When calling useSigner() you can invoke the following methods:

• methods.selectWallet()
  • Opens the Web3 pop up. Throws an Error if something fails
  • Accepts an optional cacheProvider and networkId parameters
• methods.disconnect()
  • Closes the connection to the currently active connection
• methods.refreshChainId()
  • Updates the current chainId

Fields

When calling useSigner() you receive the following variables:

• provider
  • An ethers.js Web3Provider (if available)
• signer
  • An ethers.js JsonRpcSigner (if available)
• status
  • Whether web3modal is connected to a wallet or not
  • Can be "disconnected", "connecting" or "connected"
• address
  • The address of the currently active wallet (if available)
• chainId
  • The chainId of the currently selected network

Available commands

yarn build
yarn lint
yarn lint -- --fix
yarn size
yarn start
yarn test

Example

Start the example web server:

yarn example

See in the example folder: pages/_app.tsx and pages/index.tsx

Navigate to localhost:8080