Ethereum Cookbook

How to do it...

We are now going to learn how to manage accounts and send transactions:

1. To view the list of accounts available in the connected node, use the following command:

// v0.2x.xweb3.eth.accounts;// v1.x.xweb3.eth.getAccounts().then(console.log);

2. To create an account using the web3 object, run the following command. Starting from 1.x.x, web3.js includes added support for account management:

// For v1.x.xweb3.eth.accounts.create();web3.eth.accounts.create("<random entropy>");

The create function accepts an entropy as input for randomness. If not specified, it will generate a random hex of 32 bytes by using web3.utils.randomHex(32) and will use it as the entropy input. This method will return the new address, private key, and methods ...