Yevgen`s official homepage
Yevgen Somochkin
"ΞΣΣΘ"
CTO ESSO.DEV
Building the Future of AI, Automation & Web3 | Full-stack & DevOps Architect | Scalable, Data-driven Web & Mobile Apps
Hamburg, Germany
Yevgen`s official homepage
Yevgen Somochkin
"ΞΣΣΘ"
CTO ESSO.DEV
Building the Future of AI, Automation & Web3 | Full-stack & DevOps Architect | Scalable, Data-driven Web & Mobile Apps
Hamburg, Germany
Connect your applications to Ethereum and EVM blockchains with ethers.js — the most popular JavaScript library for blockchain interaction. ethers.js provides a clean, well-documented API for reading blockchain data, sending transactions, and interacting with smart contracts from any JavaScript environment — browser, Node.js, or React Native. It's the bridge between your frontend and the blockchain.
Unlike older alternatives, ethers.js was designed with modern JavaScript in mind. Full TypeScript support provides type safety for contract interactions. The library cleanly separates Providers (read-only blockchain access) from Signers (transaction authorization), making it natural to build applications where users connect their own wallets. This architecture is fundamental to Web3 — your app never touches private keys.
ethers.js handles the complexity of blockchain interaction transparently: ABI encoding/decoding, gas estimation, nonce management, transaction receipt polling, and event filtering. Contract abstractions let you call smart contract functions as if they were regular JavaScript methods. ENS resolution converts human-readable names to addresses. BigNumber utilities handle the precision requirements of financial applications without floating-point errors.
We use ethers.js across our entire Web3 stack — from React frontends connecting to MetaMask, to Node.js backends processing on-chain events, to React Native mobile apps with WalletConnect integration. Combined with TypeChain for type generation, ethers.js provides a development experience that's nearly as smooth as working with traditional REST APIs, while maintaining the security and trustlessness properties of blockchain interactions.
