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We wrote a library with the same code generation purpose almost on the same day (1st commit). I just found myself typing the same TS code using truffle-contract

We wrote a library with the same code generation purpose almost on the same day (1st commit). I just found myself typing the same TS code using truffle-contract lib over ERC20 methods. Using it in production and will release v.1. as soon as web3 is v.1. (a blog post was due on v.1 date :) ) We also have a number of strongly typed helper methods included such as ethereum-utils, keythereum and fast signing for state channels implementation (implemented in a sibling repo). The concept of TypeScript code generation is very valid, saves a lot of time during rapid prototyping and contracts become self-documenting, with IDE errors after signatures change. Generated contracts are isomorphic and work well from Node.js and a browser while being simply packed with NPM. https://github.com/dbrainio/Soltsice https://github.com/dbrainio/Soltsice

krzkaczor 9y ago
Hey, TypeChain author here. Yeah that's funny :D I was looking for a tool like that, haven't found anything so I wrote my own. Now it seems like there is a couple of tools doing similar things (also 0x is working on something similar). Good luck with your project — your approach is a little bit different since you wrap around truffle contract where we decided to come up with our own api. I am excited to see how it develops further!
- buybackoff 9y ago
  Hi! Thanks! I will replace truffle-contract with web3 1.0 contracts API. Current web3 1.0-beta doesn't work well with TS. The dependency was accidental since I was already using it, while writing codegen stuff took very little time and was just a helper script in a contracts repo initially. Our public API is plain async TS, truffle-contract is only an implementation detail. Need for such solution seems so obvious given that we have Go ABI gen tool for a similar purpose and JS is the main language for DApps (and probably Node.js for backend is more popular than Go). Also, truffle migration looked like a fragile black box, and testing with `jest --watch` instead of truffle suite is much nicer and faster.

krzkaczor 9y ago

Hey, TypeChain author here. Yeah that's funny :D I was looking for a tool like that, haven't found anything so I wrote my own. Now it seems like there is a couple of tools doing similar things (also 0x is working on something similar). Good luck with your project — your approach is a little bit different since you wrap around truffle contract where we decided to come up with our own api. I am excited to see how it develops further!

buybackoff 9y ago
Hi! Thanks! I will replace truffle-contract with web3 1.0 contracts API. Current web3 1.0-beta doesn't work well with TS. The dependency was accidental since I was already using it, while writing codegen stuff took very little time and was just a helper script in a contracts repo initially. Our public API is plain async TS, truffle-contract is only an implementation detail. Need for such solution seems so obvious given that we have Go ABI gen tool for a similar purpose and JS is the main language for DApps (and probably Node.js for backend is more popular than Go). Also, truffle migration looked like a fragile black box, and testing with `jest --watch` instead of truffle suite is much nicer and faster.