5.7.2 JavaScript (RPC)

This frontend library relies on the Reach RPC Server.

Once installed, add the following import line to your JavaScript file which will connect to the RPC server:

import { mkRPC } from '@reach-sh/rpc-client';

The library provides the following bindings:

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const { rpc, rpcCallbacks } = await mkRPC(opts);

mkRPC accepts the Reach RPC Client Standard Options as an object and returns a Promise of an object with two fields, rpc and rpcCallbacks.

rpc is a function that invokes a synchronous value RPC method. It takes a string, naming the RPC method, and some JSON values to provide as arguments. It returns a Promise of a single JSON value as the result.

For example,

await rpc(`/stdlib/formatCurrency`, i, 4);

calls formatCurrency with some value i and 4.

rpcCallbacks is a function that invokes an interactive RPC method, such as for a backend. It takes a string, naming the RPC method, a JSON value as an argument, and dictionary from strings to JSON values or async functions. The functions will be provided as interactive RPC callbacks to the RPC method and should expect JSON values as arguments and return a Promise of a JSON value as a result. It returns a Promise that does not contain a value.

For example,

const showX = async (xo) => {
  const x = await rpc(`/stdlib/bigNumberToNumber`, xo);
  console.log(`Alice saw that X is ${x}`);
};
const ms = {
  'price': 10,
  'showX': showX,
};
await rpcCallbacks(`/backend/Alice`, ctc, ms)

calls a backend named Alice with the contract ctc and a value named price and a method named showX that prints out a result from the Reach backend.