Ether.js

Ether.js is a TypeScript library that provides a more convenient and easy-to-use interface for interacting with Ethereum. It is built on top of Web3.js and provides a range of features such as support for both Ethereum JSON-RPC APIs and EIP-1193 provider APIs, custom gas estimation, and contract abstractions.

With Ether.js, developers can easily connect to Ethereum nodes, send transactions, read data from the blockchain, interact with smart contracts, and more. It also provides support for popular Ethereum wallets such as MetaMask, Ledger, and Trezor.

Here's an example of using Ether.js to connect to a remote Ethereum node and retrieve the balance of an Ethereum account:

typescriptCopy codeimport { ethers } from 'ethers';

// Create a provider with a remote Ethereum node URL
const provider = new ethers.providers.JsonRpcProvider('https://mainnet.infura.io/v3/<your-infura-project-id>');

// Specify the Ethereum account address to get the balance for
const address = '0x123...';

// Retrieve the balance of the specified account
const balance = await provider.getBalance(address);

console.log(`Account balance: ${balance.toString()} wei`);

This code uses the JsonRpcProvider class from Ether.js to connect to a remote Ethereum node via Infura's JSON-RPC API. It then retrieves the balance of the specified Ethereum account using the getBalance method, which returns the account balance in wei.