Use ethers-wallet without requiring the whole ethers library

[mattvick]

The docs show the way to create a wallet instance as follows:

var Wallet = ethers.Wallet;

This requires including ethers as a dependency, as follows:

var ethers = require('ethers');

How can the wallet part of the library be used without requiring all parts of the library?

[ricmoo]

Heya!

You can just specify you want the ethers-wallet npm package in your package.json, which only includes the relevant Wallet code.

var ethersWallet = require('ethers-wallet');
var Wallet = ethersWallet.Wallet;

var wallet = new Wallet(privateKey);
var wallet = Wallet.fromMnemonic(mnemonic);
// .. etc ...

There is also a dist package in ethers.js/dist/ethers-wallet.min.js if you are using this in a website.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

[mattvick]

Thanks @ricmoo

Is there a public repo for documentation site, so I can add these instructions there?

[ricmoo]

The documentation is contained in the ethers.js repo itself (in /docs/source).

I need to go through the documentation sometime soon and make sure it still entirely matches up with the code; a lot of ENS features have been added recently, that haven't made it into the docs.

[ricmoo]

Added to the documentation.

See https://docs.ethers.io/ethers.js/html/api-wallet.html

Thanks!