path: root/packages/0x.js/README.md

## 0x.js

A TypeScript/Javascript library for interacting with the 0x protocol. It is a high level package which combines a number of underlying packages such as order-utils and order-watcher.

### Read the [Documentation](https://0xproject.com/docs/0x.js).

## Installation

0x.js ships as both a [UMD](https://github.com/umdjs/umd) module and a [CommonJS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommonJS) package.

#### CommonJS _(recommended)_:

**Install**

```bash
npm install 0x.js --save
```

**Import**

```javascript
import {
    assetDataUtils,
    BigNumber,
    ContractWrappers,
    generatePseudoRandomSalt,
    orderHashUtils,
    signatureUtils,
} from '0x.js';
```

If your project is in [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/), add the following to your `tsconfig.json`:

```json
"compilerOptions": {
    "typeRoots": ["node_modules/@0x/typescript-typings/types", "node_modules/@types"],
}
```

#### UMD:

**Install**

Download the UMD module from our [releases page](https://github.com/0xProject/0x-monorepo/releases) and add it to your project.

**Import**

```html
<script type="text/javascript" src="0x.js"></script>
```

## Contributing

We strongly recommend that the community help us make improvements and determine the future direction of 0x protocol. To report bugs within this package, please create an issue in this repository.

Please read our [contribution guidelines](../../CONTRIBUTING.md) before getting started.

### Install dependencies

If you don't have yarn workspaces enabled (Yarn < v1.0) - enable them:

```bash
yarn config set workspaces-experimental true
```

Then install dependencies

```bash
yarn install
```

### Build

To build this package and all other monorepo packages that it depends on, run the following from the monorepo root directory:

```bash
PKG=0x.js yarn build
```

Or continuously rebuild on change:

```bash
PKG=0x.js yarn watch
```

### Clean

```bash
yarn clean
```

### Lint

```bash
yarn lint
```

### Run Tests

```bash
yarn test
```