Allowing reads without users needing to connect a wallet

[kevinhalliday]

Excited about this library. Loving the hooks/docs/typescript support - super helpful for those of us onboarding to dapp development. Thanks! Wondering what the best flow is allowing read only connections to some alchemy/infura by default, without a user needing to connect their wallet?

[tmm]

You can configure a global ethers.js Provider and access it with the useProvider hook. This works even if an account is not connected.

[kevinhalliday]

Oh great - so the answer was in the docs. Looks like I don't fully understand how providers work. Thanks for the quick response

[isaac-martin]

Can set up a provider but i'm a bit lost to what to do now? I pass the provider into the useContractRead hook but still can't get data unless connected to a wallet 🤔

[isaac-martin]

i'm a dummy - without a wallet connected it defaults to mainnet which i don't have a contract deployed to rn.
for anyone who stumbles across this error while in development you can do this.

 <Provider
        autoConnect
        connectors={connectors}
        // force providers to rinkeby for now
        provider={() => provider({ chainId: 4 })}
        webSocketProvider={() => webSocketProvider({ chainId: 4 })}>
       {children}
      </Provider>
      ```