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web3 vs ethers: What are the differences?
What is web3? Ethereum JavaScript API. Ethereum JavaScript API.
What is ethers? Umbrella package for most common Ethers libraries. Umbrella package for most common Ethers libraries.
web3 and ethers can be primarily classified as "npm Packages" tools.
web3 and ethers are both open source tools. It seems that web3 with 11.5K GitHub stars and 3.47K forks on GitHub has more adoption than ethers with 3.07K GitHub stars and 764 GitHub forks.
ethers Stats
- Dependent Packages Counts - 686
web3 Stats
- Dependent Packages Counts - 2.5K
ethers Vulnerabilities
No Vulnerabilities found
web3 Vulnerabilities
- Insecure Credential Storage in web3Low
ethers Release info
Latest version
6.12.1
MIT
web3 Release info
Latest version
4.8.0
LGPL-3.0
- No public GitHub repository available -
What is ethers?
Umbrella package for most common Ethers libraries.
What is web3?
Ethereum JavaScript API.
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Vue.js
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