Getting Started

First you need to get bee-js into your project. This can be done using your favourite package management tool or directly:

npm

npm install @ethersphere/bee-js --save

yarn

yarn add @ethersphere/bee-js --save

script tag

<script src="https://unpkg.com/@ethersphere/bee-js/dist/index.browser.min.js"></script>

After that you need to import the Bee class and create a bee instance connecting to your Bee node (here we assume it runs on localhost on default port). Be aware, if you will pass invalid URL the constructor will throw an exception!

import { Bee } from "@ethersphere/bee-js"

const bee = new Bee('http://localhost:1633')

That’s it! now you can use the bee object.

Run your own Bee node

You can find out more about running Bee node in the Bee docs

Using <script> import

If you include bee-js using the unpkg.com script link then all the exported components will be available to you under global namespace BeeJs:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/@ethersphere/bee-js/dist/index.browser.min.js"></script>
<script>
  const bee = new BeeJs.Bee('...')
</script>