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Connect Nightly

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This part of documentation assumes you have already completed the detection step and have access to the Nightly wallet object.

To view the implementation of the connect method, and the ones described in the later chapters, visit our source code.

Source code: https://github.com/nightly-labs/aleph-zero-web3-template/blob/main/app/components/StickyHeader.tsx​


In order to start using Nightly extension, an app needs to establish a connection. Once the connection request is initiated on the application side, it will prompt the user to provide permission to connect to the app with Nightly.

Connect​

To connect with the polkadot network using the Nightly object acquired from the previous step, do the following.

// Assuming nightly is the detected Nightly Wallet object
const adapter = nightly.injectedWallet
//  polkadotNetwork object is one of these 'Polkadot' | 'AlephZero' | 'Vara'
const inject = await adapter.enable(YOUR_APP_NAME, polkadotNetwork)

// Assert that there is at least one account
if ((await inject.accounts.get()).length <= 0) {
  throw new Error('No accounts found')
}
this._innerStandardAdapter = {
  ...inject,
  signer: {
    ...inject.signer,
    signPayload: inject.signer.signPayload
      ? payload => inject.signer.signPayload(payload, polkadotNetwork)
      : undefined,
    signRaw: inject.signer.signRaw
      ? payload => inject.signer.signRaw(payload, polkadotNetwork)
      : undefined
  }
}

Disconnect​

We recommend setting the adapter object to undefined and rebuilding your app instance.

adapter = undefined

this._appInstance = App.build()