Bee-JS

JavaScript SDK for connecting to a Bee node in the Swarm decentralised storage.

Supports Node.js 18+, Vite and Webpack.

Write your code in CJS, MJS or TypeScript.

Intended to be used with Bee version 2.2.0.

Quick start

Start a Swarm project using TypeScript:

npm init swarm-app@latest my-dapp node-ts

or using Vite and TypeScript:

npm init swarm-app@latest my-dapp vite-tsx

Supported types are node, node-esm, node-ts and vite-tsx. Replace my-dapp with your project name.

Install

npm install @ethersphere/bee-js

or

yarn add @ethersphere/bee-js

Import

CJS

const { Bee } = require('@ethersphere/bee-js')

MJS and TypeScript

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

Script tag

Loading this module through a script tag will make the BeeJs object available in the global namespace.

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

Usage

Upload via Swarm Gateway

import { Bee, NULL_STAMP, SWARM_GATEWAY_URL } from '@ethersphere/bee-js'

main()

async function main() {
  const bee = new Bee(SWARM_GATEWAY_URL)
  const { reference } = await bee.uploadData(NULL_STAMP, 'Hello, World!')
  console.log(reference)
}

Create or select an existing postage batch

Swarm incentivizes nodes in the network to store content, therefor all uploads require a paid postage batch.

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

async function getOrCreatePostageBatch() {
  const bee = new Bee('http://localhost:1633')
  let batchId

  const batches = await bee.getAllPostageBatch()
  const usable = batches.find(x => x.usable)

  if (usable) {
    batchId = usable.batchID
  } else {
    batchId = await bee.createPostageBatch('500000000', 20)
  }
}

The following examples all assume an existing batchId.

Upload simple data (Browser + Node.js)

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

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

const uploadResult = await bee.uploadData(batchId, 'Bee is awesome!')
const data = await bee.downloadData(uploadResult.reference)

console.log(data.text()) // prints 'Bee is awesome!'

Upload data from a file input (React)

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

const bee = new Bee('http://localhost:1633')
const result = await bee.uploadFile(batchId, file)

Upload multiple files or a directory (React)

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

const bee = new Bee('http://localhost:1633')
const result = await bee.uploadFiles(batchId, fileList)

Upload arbitrary large file (Node.js)

import { Bee } from '@ethersphere/bee-js'
import { createReadStream } from 'fs'

const bee = new Bee('http://localhost:1633')
const readable = createReadStream('./path/to/large.bin')
const uploadResult = await bee.uploadFile(batchId, readable)

Upload arbitrary large directories (Node.js)

import { Bee } from '@ethersphere/bee-js'
import { createReadStream } from 'fs'

const bee = new Bee('http://localhost:1633')
const uploadResult = await bee.uploadFilesFromDirectory(batchId, './path/to/gallery/')

Customize http/https agent and headers

const bee = new Bee('http://localhost:1633', {
  httpAgent: new http.Agent({ keepAlive: true }),
  httpsAgent: new https.Agent({ keepAlive: true }),
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Basic ' + Buffer.from('username:password').toString('base64'),
  },
})

Check out our examples repo for some more ideas on how to use bee-js

Documentation

You can find the full documentation here. The API reference documentation can be found here.

Contribute

Stay up to date by joining the official Discord and by keeping an eye on the releases tab.

There are some ways you can make this module better:

• Consult our open issues and take on one of them
• Help our tests reach 100% coverage!
• Join us in our Discord chat in the #develop-on-swarm channel if you have questions or want to give feedback

Setup

Install project dependencies with

npm i

Test

The tests run in both context: node and dom with Jest.

To run the integration tests, you need to spin up local Bee cluster using our fdp-play project. In order to do that you have to have locally Docker running on your machine, but afterwards you can just simply run npm run bee, which spins up the cluster and display Queen's logs. If you want to exit hit CTRL+C.

If you want to skip creation of postage stamps every run of integration tests you can create stamps for both nodes and set them under env. variables BEE_POSTAGE and BEE_PEER_POSTAGE.

By default, for integration tests two bee nodes are expected to run on localhost on addresses http://localhost:1633 and http://localhost:11633. These are the default values for the fdp-play script. If you want to use custom setup, you can change the behavior of tests to different addresses using environment variables BEE_API_URL and BEE_PEER_API_URL.

There are also browser tests by Puppeteer, which also provide integrity testing.

npm run test:browser

The test HTML file which Puppeteer uses is the test/testpage/testpage.html. To open and manually test BeeJS with developer console, it is necessary to build the library first with npm run compile:browser (running the browser tests npm run test:browser also builds the library).

Compile code

In order to compile NodeJS code run

npm run compile:node

or for Browsers

npm run compile:browser

License

BSD-3-Clause