Creating contract instances

A contract instance represents a deployed contract in a particular network. Using a contract abstraction instance, we need to create a contract instance. There are three methods to create a contract instance:

  • SampleContract.new([arg1, arg2, ...], [tx params]): This function takes whatever constructor parameters your contract requires and deploys a new instance of the contract to the network to which the contract abstraction is set to use. There's an optional last argument, which you can use to pass transaction parameters, including the transaction from address, gas limit, and gas price. This function returns a promise that resolves into a new instance of the contract abstraction at the newly deployed address when ...

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