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I'm building an Angular app which connects to various blockchain accounts through metamask. One of my services connects to MetaMask by obtaining a provider and signer using

this.myProvider = new ethers.providers.Web3Provider(window.ethereum);
this.mySigner = this.myProvider.getSigner();

I would like my service to be aware when the user switches accounts or chains, or signs out of metamask and I am trying to find a way to be informed of those events when they happen.

I see that the object returned to myProvider is a Web3Provider, which contains an addListener method which takes 2 parameters, an EventType and a Listener but I can't find any documentation on how to access valid Event Types or how to set up a listener I assume that these events might provide what I am looking for. Can somebody point me to an example of how to use these events and listeners?

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Those events are part of EIP-1193 definition of the provider API, they are not part of ethers.js or web3.js if I understand correctly. A nice documentation is also present here.

So to access them, you need to call directly on window.ethereum that is injected by Metamask.

window.ethereum.on("accountsChanged", (accounts) => {
/* do what you want here */
})

Similarly to watch for chain change :

window.ethereum.on("chainChanged", (chainId) => {
/* do what you want here */
/* full refresh is recommended */
})
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I'm wondering the same ... I find out as @hroussille, but now, how can i properly use that in an Angular app... That's the question !

EDIT --- I found something !

In the constructor of a service i write something like that :

constructor() {
 (window as any).ethereum.on('accountsChanged',(accounts) =>{
   console.log(accounts) 
 })
}

And it's working :)

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  • If you want to set the listeners in a component, suggest you put the code as suggested by @hroussille in ngOnit method of your component. I'm not positive if this is true, but you may also need to add a teardown method in ngOnDestroy to tear down these listeners to avoid memory leaks.
    – GGizmos
    Dec 4, 2021 at 20:46

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