Welcome to Dedot

Dedot is the next-generation JavaScript client for Polkadot and Polkadot SDK-based networks.

Designed to elevate the dapp development experience, Dedot is built & optimized to be lightweight and tree-shakable, offering precise Types & APIs suggestions for individual Polkadot SDK-based blockchains and ink! Smart Contracts. Dedot also helps dapps efficiently connect to multiple chains simultaneously as we head toward a seamless multi-chain future.

Features

• Small bundle size, tree-shakable (no more bn.js or wasm blob)

• Typesafe APIs for on-chain interactions & smart contracts

• Build on top of both the new & legacy (*deprecated soon) JSON-RPC APIs

• Support light clients (e.g: smoldot)

• Using native TypeScript type system for scale-codec

• Compatible with @polkadot/extension-based wallets (SubWallet, Talisman...)

• Fully-typed low-level JSON-RPC client for advanced usage

• Similar API-style with @polkadot/api, easy and fast migration

• Support Metadata V14, V15, V16 (latest)

• Metadata optimization (caching, compact mode 🔜)

• ... and a lot more 🔜

How to get started

Installation

Install dedot packages & setup your projects

Connecting to network

Connect & interact with networks

Clients & Providers

Learn more about Clients & Providers API

ink! Smart Contracts

Deploy & tnteract with ink! smart contracts

Runtime upgrades

Prepare your dapps for the next runtime upgrades

Utilities

Utility functions to work with hex, hash, Uint8Array...

Join the community

• Join Dedot Telegram to get supports and project updates

• Follow the creator of Dedot - @realsinzii on X

• Github repository: dedotdev/dedot

Acknowledgment

Dedot takes a lot of inspirations from project @polkadot/api. A big thank to all the maintainers/contributors of this awesome library.

Funded by Web3 Foundation Grants Program.