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There are multiple options when it comes to React libraries for Ethereum that help manage wallet connections, provide utility methods/hooks, etc.

Overview

wagmiweb3-reactuseDAppweb3modal
GitHub Starswagmi star countweb3-react star countuseDApp star countweb3modal star count
Open Issueswagmi issue countweb3-react issue countuseDApp issue countweb3modal issue count
Downloadswagmi downloadsweb3-react downloadsuseDApp downloadsweb3modal downloads
Licensewagmi licenseweb3-react licenseuseDApp licenseweb3modal license
Their Comparison–nonenonenone
Supported FrameworksReact, Vanilla JSReactReactVanilla JS
Documentation✅🛑✅🛑
TypeScript1✅🔶🔶🔶
Test Suite2✅🔶🔶🛑
Examples3✅🔶✅🔶

wagmi

Pros

  • 20+ hooks for working with wallets, ENS, contracts, transactions, signing, etc.
  • Built-in wallet connectors for MetaMask, WalletConnect, Coinbase Wallet, and Injected
  • Caching, request deduplication, and persistence powered
  • Auto-refresh data on wallet, block, and network changes
  • Multicall support
  • Test suite running against forked Ethereum network
  • TypeScript ready (infer types from ABIs and EIP-712 Typed Data)
  • Extensive documentation and examples
  • Used by ENS, Foundation, SushiSwap, and more
  • MIT License

Cons

  • Not as many built-in connectors as web3-react

web3-react

Pros

  • Supports many different connectors (conceptually similar to wagmi's connectors)
  • Basic hooks for managing account
  • Used by Uniswap and some other popular projects

Cons

  • Need to set up connectors and method for connecting wallet on your own
  • Need to install connectors separately
  • Almost no tests or documentation; infrequent updates
  • GPL-3.0 License

useDApp

Pros

  • Auto-refresh on new blocks and wallet changes
  • Multicall support
  • Transaction notifications
  • Chrome extension and Firefox add-on
  • MIT License

Cons

  • Non-standard hook API

web3modal

Pros

  • UI component for connecting wallet
  • Supports many different connectors

Cons

  • Cannot be used headlessly
  • No hooks for interacting with Ethereum, fetching information, etc.
  • Almost no tests and infrequent updates
  • Apache-2.0 License

Footnotes

  1. Infer types from ABIs, EIP-712 Typed Data, etc. ✅. Can add types with explicit generics, type annotations, etc. 🔶. ↩

  2. Runs against forked Ethereum network ✅. Mocking functionality (i.e. RPC calls) is 🔶. ↩

  3. Has multiple examples ✅. Has single example 🔶. ↩

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