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The web3 JavaScript library

The web3 library is an open source JavaScript library that can be used to connect to Ethereum nodes from the same or a remote computer. It allows IPC as well as RPC to connect to Ethereum nodes. web3 is a client-side library and can be used alongside a web page and query and can submit transactions to Ethereum nodes. It can be installed using the node package manager as a node module like the Solidity compiler. At the time of writing, the latest version of web3 is broken and does not install appropriately because of the missing BigNumber.js file. However, previous stable versions can be used for connecting web applications to backend Ethereum nodes. Let's take a look at the following steps to install the web3

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