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react-celo

The easiest way to access ContractKit in your React applications.

react-celo​

The easiest way to access Celo in your React applications 🔥. react-celo is a React hook for managing access to Celo with a built-in headless modal system for connecting to your users wallet of choice.

Now your DApp can be made available to everyone in the Celo ecosystem, from Valora users to self custodied Ledger users.

By default react-celo is styled so that you can drop it into your application and go, however it's fully customisable so you can maintain a consistent UX throughout your application.

Table of Contents​

Install​

yarn add @celo/react-celo @celo/contractkit

Supported wallets​

  • Celo Dance
  • Celo Extension Wallet (Metamask fork)
  • Celo Terminal
  • Celo Wallet
  • Ledger
  • MetaMask
  • Plaintext private key
  • Omni
  • Valora
  • WalletConnect

Basic Usage​

Wrap your application with CeloProvider​

react-celo uses React's Context.Provider under the hood to inject state throughout your application. You need to make sure your application is wrapped with the provider in order to be able to access all the goodies react-celo provides.

import { CeloProvider } from "@celo/react-celo";
import "@celo/react-celo/lib/styles.css";

function WrappedApp() {
  return (
    <CeloProvider
      dapp={{
        name: "My awesome dApp",
        description: "My awesome description",
        url: "https://example.com",
      }}
    >
      <App />
    </CeloProvider>
  );
}

function App() {
  // your application code
}

Default wallets and customization​

react-celo provides a list of default wallets (CeloExtensionWallet, Injected, Ledger, MetaMask, PrivateKey (dev only) and WalletConnect). It can be configured as shown below.

<CeloProvider
  dapp={{
    name: "My awesome dApp",
    description: "My awesome description",
    url: "https://example.com",
  }}
  connectModal={{
    // This options changes the title of the modal and can be either a string or a react element
    title: <span>Connect your Wallet</span>,
    providersOptions: {
      // This option hides specific wallets from the default list
      hideFromDefaults: [
        SupportedProvider.MetaMask,
        SupportedProvider.PrivateKey,
        SupportedProvider.CeloExtensionWallet,
        SupportedProvider.Valora,
      ],

      // This option hides all default wallets
      hideFromDefaults: true,

      // This option toggles on and off the searchbar
      searchable: true,
    },
  }}
>
  <App />
</CeloProvider>

You can also add new custom wallets that don't exist in the registry or aren't in our defaults. For now, we only support custom wallets that implement the walletconnect protocol, but more may come in the future. In the example below, we're hiding all wallets except a new custom wallet.

<CeloProvider
  dapp={{
    name: "My awesome dApp",
    description: "My awesome description",
    url: "https://example.com",
  }}
  // Use the theme to customize the colors.
  // If you provide a theme, you must provide all values below!
  theme={{
    primary: "#6366f1",
    secondary: "#eef2ff",
    text: "#000000",
    textSecondary: "#1f2937",
    textTertiary: "#64748b",
    muted: "#e2e8f0",
    background: "#ffffff",
    error: "#ef4444",
  }}
  connectModal={{
    title: <span>Connect your ExampleWallet</span>,
    providersOptions: {
      hideFromDefaults: true,
      additionalWCWallets: [
        // see https://github.com/WalletConnect/walletconnect-registry/#schema for a schema example
        {
          id: "example-wallet",
          name: "Example Wallet",
          description: "Lorem ipsum",
          homepage: "https://example.com",
          chains: ["eip:4220"],
          // IMPORTANT
          // This is the version of WC. We only support version 1 at the moment.
          versions: ["1"],
          logos: {
            sm: "https://via.placeholder.com/40/000000/FFFFFF",
            md: "https://via.placeholder.com/80/000000/FFFFFF",
            lg: "https://via.placeholder.com/160/000000/FFFFFF",
          },
          app: {
            browser: "...",
            ios: "...",
            android: "...",
            mac: "...",
            windows: "..",
            linux: "...",
          },
          mobile: {
            native: "...",
            universal: "...",
          },
          desktop: {
            native: "...",
            universal: "...",
          },
          metadata: {
            shortName: "...",
            colors: {
              primary: "...",
              secondary: "...",
            },
          },
          responsive: {
            mobileFriendly: true,
            browserFriendly: true,
            mobileOnly: false,
            browserOnly: false,
          },
        },
      ],
    },
  }}
>
  <App />
</CeloProvider>

Prompt users to connect their wallet​

react-celo provides a connect function that will open a modal with a list of wallets your user can connect to.

import { useCelo } from "@celo/react-celo";

function App() {
  const { connect, address } = useCelo();

  return (
    <>
      {address ? (
        <div>Connected to {address}</div>
      ) : (
        <button onClick={connect}>Connect wallet</button>
      )}
    </>
  );
}

After connecting to an account the address property will be set.

Use ContractKit to read chain data​

Now that we've connected to an account and have the users address, we can use the kit to query on-chain data:

import { useCelo } from '@celo/react-celo';

function App() {
  const { kit, address } = useCelo();

  async function getAccountSummary() {
    const accounts = await kit.contracts.getAccounts();
    await accounts.getAccountSummary(address);
  }

  return (
    ...
  )
}

Accessing user accounts​

The biggest problem when developing DApps is ensuring a Web2 level experience while managing the flaky and often slow nature of blockchains. To that end we've designed react-celo in a way to abstract away most of that pain.

Initially connecting to a user's account is one thing, handled via the connect function we just mentioned. However once a user has connected to your DApp we can make the experience nicer for them on repeat visits.

Last connected account​

react-celo will remember a user's last connected address when they navigate back to or refresh your DApp. Ensure that when developing your DApp nothing changes in the UI whether or not the user has a kit.defaultAccount property set.

import { useCelo } from "@celo/react-celo";

const { address } = useCelo();

Get a connected account​

When a user refreshes or navigates back to your page, they may not necessarily have a connected account any longer, however we shouldn't need to prompt them to login again just to view the page, that can be done only when doing an action.

For that functionality we have the performActions and getConnectedKit methods. Usage looks a little like this for getConnectedKit:

import { useCelo } from "@celo/react-celo";

function App() {
  const { getConnectedKit } = useCelo();

  async function transfer() {
    const kit = await getConnectedKit();
    const cUSD = await kit.contracts.getStableToken();
    await cUSD.transfer("0x...", 10000).sendAndWaitForReceipt();
  }

  return <button onClick={transfer}>Transfer</button>;
}

and this for performActions:

import { useCelo } from "@celo/react-celo";

function App() {
  const { performActions } = useCelo();

  async function transfer() {
    await performActions(async (kit) => {
      const cUSD = await kit.contracts.getStableToken();
      await cUSD.transfer("0x...", 10000).sendAndWaitForReceipt();
    });
  }

  return <button onClick={transfer}>Transfer</button>;
}

The performActions method will also take care of displaying a modal to the user telling them to confirm any actions on their connected wallet.

Network management​

react-celo provides a network variable and an updateNetwork function you can use to display the currently connected network as well as switch to a different one (ie. Alfajores, Baklava or Mainnet).

If you'd prefer your DApp to only access a specific network (maybe you're deploying your testnet website at https://test-app.dapp.name and your mainnet version at https://app.dapp.name) you can pass the network you want to use as a variable into the provider you wrap your application with:

You can also pass in a network prop to the CeloProvider as the default starting network

walletChainId vs network​

useCelo returns two properties. network, an object with a name, chainId and rpc url. it is which chain/network the dapp is communicating with. walletChainId is the chainID the wallet/signer is connected to (assuming it this is a concept that it has one) or will be null. unless Manual Networking mode is enabled these will eventually be consistent or walletChainId will be null.

import { CeloProvider, Alfajores, NetworkNames } from '@celo/react-celo';

function WrappedApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  return (
    <CeloProvider
      ...
      networks={[Alfajores]}
      network={{
        name: NetworkNames.Alfajores,
        rpcUrl: 'https://alfajores-forno.celo-testnet.org',
        graphQl: 'https://alfajores-blockscout.celo-testnet.org/graphiql',
        explorer: 'https://alfajores-blockscout.celo-testnet.org',
        chainId: 44787,
      }}
    >
      <App />
    </CeloProvider>
  );
}

function App () {
  ...
}

Be sure to check the react-celo example application for a showcase of how network management works in more depth. Usually you'll want to show a dropdown to your users allowing them to select the network to connect to.

import { useCelo } from "@celo/react-celo";

function App() {
  const { network, updateNetwork } = useCelo();

  return <div>Currently connected to {network}</div>;
}

Extending Supported Networks​

By default Use-Contractkit only supports Celo Blockchain Networks. You can however extend this to include other chains you choose such as Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche etc by Passing your array of Networks into CeloProvider. Note this feature is considered experimental and works better with wallets like Metamask.

Manual Networking Mode​

Opt out of the React-Celo automatically switching which network the dapp / wallet are on. walletChainId might be different to dapp's network.chainId. You MUST use updateNetwork to set the desired chain in this case.

Adjust FeeCurrency​

react-celo provides a feeCurrency variable and an updateFeeCurrency function you can use to display the currently selected feeCurrency (cUSD, CELO, cEUR). The feeCurrency can also be passed to the provider component. Valid values are CeloContract.GoldToken, CeloContract.StableToken, CeloContract.StableTokenEUR. CeloContract can be imported like so:

import { CeloTokenContract } from '@celo/contractkit'

Themes and dark-mode​

Currently react-celo supports dark mode and light (aka default) mode via tailwind out of the box, to use the modal in dark mode simply add the class tw-dark to the root <html /> tag of the web page.

If you default styles aren't to your taste, you can provide a theme object defined as such. You can do it during the setup of your dapp, at the Provider level. Or on the fly (let's say, if your users can change the theme of your dapp), via updateTheme.

interface Theme {
  primary: string;
  secondary: string;
  text: string;
  textSecondary: string;
  textTertiary: string;
  muted: string;
  background: string;
  error: string;
}

Logging and debugging​

We log by default debug or above in development mode. It is determined your environement variables: by either setting DEBUG to true or setting NODE_ENV to something else than production). In production mode, we log only error.

But you are welcome to provide your own logger at the provider level. It should implement our ILogger interface which looks like that:

interface ILogger {
  debug(...args: unknown[]): void;
  log(...args: unknown[]): void;
  warn(...args: unknown[]): void;
  error(...args: unknown[]): void;
}

Development​

To run all the packages locally at once, simply clone this repository and run:

yarn;
yarn build;  #only needs to be run the first time
yarn dev;

A hot reloading server should come up on localhost:3000, it's the exact same as what's at react-celo-c-labs.vercel.app.

Alternatively, you can individually run react-celo and the example app in parallel.

For that, you still need to have run yarn in the root.

Then, you can run react-celo in one tab:

cd packages/react-celo
yarn dev

and run the example app in another:

cd packages/example
yarn dev

Support​

Struggling with anything react-celo related? Jump into the GitHub Discussions or celo-org discord channel and ask for help any time.

Guides​

More specialized use case info can be found in our Guides