Getting Started

ConnectKit is the simplest way to integrate a connect wallet experience into your React.js web application. It comes with sensible defaults out of the box so you can focus on building.

Install ConnectKit and its peer dependencies:

npm install connectkit wagmi [email protected] @tanstack/react-query

ConnectKit utilises WalletConnect's SDK to help with connecting wallets. WalletConnect 2.0 requires a projectId which you can create quickly and easily for free over at WalletConnect Cloud.

It is recommended to wrap your app within a new component that will help you set up ConnectKit and its dependencies.

Start by creating a new component called Web3Provider. Here you will import the required providers and create a config using wagmi's createConfig method. ConnectKit supplies a pre-configured getDefaultConfig function to simplify the process of creating a config.

Below is a simple example app using getDefaultConfig() to help you get started:

import { WagmiProvider, createConfig, http } from "wagmi";
import { mainnet } from "wagmi/chains";
import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
import { ConnectKitProvider, getDefaultConfig } from "connectkit";

const config = createConfig(
  getDefaultConfig({
    // Your dApps chains
    chains: [mainnet],
    transports: {
      // RPC URL for each chain
      [mainnet.id]: http(
        `https://eth-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/${process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_ALCHEMY_ID}`,
      ),
    },

    // Required API Keys
    walletConnectProjectId: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_WALLETCONNECT_PROJECT_ID,

    // Required App Info
    appName: "Your App Name",

    // Optional App Info
    appDescription: "Your App Description",
    appUrl: "https://family.co", // your app's url
    appIcon: "https://family.co/logo.png", // your app's icon, no bigger than 1024x1024px (max. 1MB)
  }),
);

const queryClient = new QueryClient();

export const Web3Provider = ({ children }) => {
  return (
    <WagmiProvider config={config}>
      <QueryClientProvider client={queryClient}>
        <ConnectKitProvider>{children}</ConnectKitProvider>
      </QueryClientProvider>
    </WagmiProvider>
  );
};

Now that you have your Web3Provider component, you can wrap your app with it:

import { Web3Provider } from "./Web3Provider";
import { ConnectKitButton } from "connectkit";

const App = () => {
  return (
    <Web3Provider>
      <ConnectKitButton />
    </Web3Provider>
  );
};

And voilà, you've successfully set up ConnectKit.

In a lot of use cases, you will want to access the connected wallet from ConnectKit in order to be able to interact with it further. You can do so by using the different hooks, such as useAccount, from wagmi (a ConnectKit dependency).

In the previous example above we wrapped our app with a <ConnectKitProvider> top-level. Before utilizing any wagmi hook, make sure the components you build are mounted under this provider.

Below is a simple example component that utilizes the useAccount hook to access connection state and the connected wallet address:

import { useAccount } from "wagmi";

// Make sure that this component is wrapped with ConnectKitProvider
const MyComponent = () => {
  const { address, isConnecting, isDisconnected } = useAccount();
  if (isConnecting) return <div>Connecting...</div>;
  if (isDisconnected) return <div>Disconnected</div>;
  return <div>Connected Wallet: {address}</div>;
};

That's it—you now have a simple component that displays the connected wallet's address.

Some build tools require additional setup to work with ConnectKit.

ConnectKit uses WalletConnect's SDK to help with connecting wallets. WalletConnect 2.0 pulls in Node.js dependencies that Next.js does not support by default.

You can mitigate this by adding the following to your next.config.js file:

module.exports = {
  webpack: (config) => {
    config.resolve.fallback = { fs: false, net: false, tls: false };
    return config;
  },
};

If using Next.js App Router, or any framework that supports React Server Components, you will need to include the "use client" directive at the beginning of your Web3Provider file.

"use client"

...

export const Web3Provider = ({ children }) => {
  return (
    ...
  );
};

Below is a list of React.js components we provide as part of the library:

To get started quickly, feel free to use any of our example apps below.