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TypeScript

wagmi is designed to be as type-safe as possible! Things to keep in mind:

  • Types currently require using TypeScript v5.0.4 or greater.
  • Changes to types in this repository are considered non-breaking and are usually released as patch semver changes (otherwise every type enhancement would be a major version!).
  • It is highly recommended that you lock your @wagmi/core package version to a specific patch release and upgrade with the expectation that types may be fixed or upgraded between any release.
  • The non-type-related public API of wagmi still follows semver very strictly.

To ensure everything works correctly, make sure that your tsconfig.json has strict mode set to true:

tsconfig.json
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "strict": true
  }
}

Type Inference

wagmi can infer types based on ABI and EIP-712 Typed Data definitions (powered by ABIType), giving you full end-to-end type-safety from your contracts to your frontend and incredible developer experience (e.g. autocomplete ABI function names and catch misspellings, type ABI function arguments, etc.).

For this to work, you must either add const assertions to specific configuration parameters (more info on those below) or define them inline. For example, readContract's abi configuration parameter:

const result = readContract({
  abi: […], // <--- defined inline
})
const abi = […] as const // <--- const assertion
const result = readContract({ abi })

If type inference isn't working, it's likely you forgot to add a const assertion or define the configuration parameter inline.

Unfortunately TypeScript doesn't support importing JSON as const. Check out @wagmi/cli to help with this! It can automatically fetchi ABIs from Etherscan, resolve ABIs from your Foundry/Hardhat projects, generate VanillaJS actions, and much more.

Contract ABIs

The following actions support type inference when you add a const assertion to abi:

For example, readContract:

import { readContract } from '@wagmi/core'
 
const result = await readContract({
  //    ^? const data: bigint
  address: '0xecb504d39723b0be0e3a9aa33d646642d1051ee1',
  abi: [
    {
      name: 'getUncleanliness',
      inputs: [],
      outputs: [{ name: '', type: 'uint256' }],
      stateMutability: 'view',
      type: 'function',
    },
    {
      name: 'love',
      inputs: [{ name: '', type: 'address' }],
      outputs: [{ name: '', type: 'uint256' }],
      stateMutability: 'view',
      type: 'function',
    },
    {
      name: 'play',
      inputs: [],
      outputs: [],
      stateMutability: 'nonpayable',
      type: 'function',
    },
  ],
 
  functionName: 'love',
  // ^? (property) functionName: "getUncleanliness" | "love"
  // Notice how "play" is not included since it is not a "read" function
 
  args: ['0x27a69ffba1e939ddcfecc8c7e0f967b872bac65c'],
  // ^? (property) args: readonly [`0x${string}`]
})

EIP-712 Typed Data

Adding a const assertion to types adds type inference to signTypedData's value configuration parameter:

import { signTypedData } from '@wagmi/core'
 
const result = await signTypedData({
  domain: {
    name: 'Ether Mail',
    version: '1',
    chainId: 1,
    verifyingContract: '0xCcCCccccCCCCcCCCCCCcCcCccCcCCCcCcccccccC',
  },
 
  types: {
    Person: [
      { name: 'name', type: 'string' },
      { name: 'wallet', type: 'address' },
    ],
    Mail: [
      { name: 'from', type: 'Person' },
      { name: 'to', type: 'Person' },
      { name: 'contents', type: 'string' },
    ],
  },
 
  value: {
    // ^? (parameter) value: { name: string; wallet: `0x${string}` } | {
    //     from: {
    //         name: string;
    //         wallet: `0x${string}`;
    //     };
    //     to: {
    //         name: string;
    //         wallet: `0x${string}`;
    //     };
    //     contents: string;
    // }
    from: {
      name: 'Cow',
      wallet: '0xCD2a3d9F938E13CD947Ec05AbC7FE734Df8DD826',
    },
    to: {
      name: 'Bob',
      wallet: '0xbBbBBBBbbBBBbbbBbbBbbbbBBbBbbbbBbBbbBBbB',
    },
    contents: 'Hello, Bob!',
  },
})

Configuring Internal Types

For advanced use-cases, you may want to configure wagmi's internal types. Most of wagmi's types relating to ABIs and EIP-712 Typed Data are powered by ABIType. See ABIType's documentation for more info on how to configure types.