web3-eth 1.3.0-rc.0

Web3.js 1.3.0-rc.0

on Node.js Yarn

NOTICE: This is the first release made by @ChainSafeSystems

This release is small but comes with some great perks. A few fixes have been made to the providers and subscriptions, and a few version bumps have been applied to some dependencies. The project is now completely built with typescript (JS files allowed until complete migration has finished) which provides two things: typescript and es6(!!!). This is a huge step forward which will allow us to modernize web3.js. Finally, we upgraded our websockets library, which now means web3.js has 0 node-gyp dependencies 🎉

As noted, this is the first release made by ChainSafe Systems, if you have any questions please reach out to us on twitter or by email (info@chainsafe.io)

Added

• Support for typescript files (.ts) to be written alongside regular .js files (#3652)
• Add compareBlock function that allows for complex block comparisons (#3682)

Changed

• Improve RequestManager send method (#3649)
• npm run build now uses TSC to compile (.js allowed) and the build folder is now located under lib (#3652)
• Modernized web3-core to use newer es syntax (#3652)
• Bumped web3-providers-ipc oboe version to 2.1.5 (#3661)
• Bump lodash from 4.17.15 to 4.17.19 (#3641)
• Bump websocket version which removes node-gyp from web3.js (#3685)

Fixed

• Fix parsing of non-eth_subscription provider events (#3660)
• Fix parsedUrl problem of websocket provider (#3666)
• Fix return value for clearSubscriptions (#3689)