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# Ethereum JavaScript API
This is the Ethereum compatible JavaScript API using `Promise`s
-which implements the [Generic JSON RPC](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Generic-JSON-RPC) spec.
+which implements the [Generic JSON RPC](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Generic-JSON-RPC) spec. It's available on npm as a node module and also for bower and component as an embeddable js
-For an example see `index.html`.
+[![NPM version][npm-image]][npm-url] [![Build Status][travis-image]][travis-url] [![dependency status][dep-image]][dep-url] [![dev dependency status][dep-dev-image]][dep-dev-url]
+
+<!-- [![browser support](https://ci.testling.com/ethereum/ethereum.js.png)](https://ci.testling.com/ethereum/ethereum.js) -->
+
+## Installation
+
+### Node.js
+
+ npm install ethereum.js
+
+### For browser
+Bower
+
+ bower install ethereum.js
+
+Component
+
+ component install ethereum/ethereum.js
+
+* Include `ethereum.min.js` in your html file.
+* Include [es6-promise](https://github.com/jakearchibald/es6-promise) or another ES6-Shim if your browser doesn't support ECMAScript 6.
+
+## Usage
+Require the library:
+
+ var web3 = require('web3');
+
+Set a provider (QtProvider, WebSocketProvider, HttpRpcProvider)
+
+ var web3.setProvider(new web3.providers.WebSocketProvider('ws://localhost:40404/eth'));
+
+There you go, now you can use it:
+
+```
+web3.eth.coinbase.then(function(result){
+ console.log(result);
+ return web3.eth.balanceAt(result);
+}).then(function(balance){
+ console.log(web3.toDecimal(balance));
+}).catch(function(err){
+ console.log(err);
+});
+```
+
+
+For another example see `example/index.html`.
+
+## Building
+
+* `gulp build`
+
+
+### Testing
**Please note this repo is in it's early stage.**
@@ -16,3 +68,12 @@ To install ethereum and spawn a node:
go get github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethereum
ethereum -ws -loglevel=4
```
+
+[npm-image]: https://badge.fury.io/js/ethereum.js.png
+[npm-url]: https://npmjs.org/package/ethereum.js
+[travis-image]: https://travis-ci.org/ethereum/ethereum.js.svg
+[travis-url]: https://travis-ci.org/ethereum/ethereum.js
+[dep-image]: https://david-dm.org/ethereum/ethereum.js.svg
+[dep-url]: https://david-dm.org/ethereum/ethereum.js
+[dep-dev-image]: https://david-dm.org/ethereum/ethereum.js/dev-status.svg
+[dep-dev-url]: https://david-dm.org/ethereum/ethereum.js#info=devDependencies \ No newline at end of file