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The below given code is from the a tutorial given here at one of the tutorials on Truffle

// Set the provider for our contract
App.contracts.Adoption.setProvider(App.web3Provider);

I see we set up a Web3 provider for the contract.

What basically are providers? What do they do?

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web3 is a client to connect to the blockchain. But

1- you need to tell web3 which blockchain you are connecting to.

2- After you are connected to the specified blockchain, you need to send messages or data to the web3

those 2 tasks are done by a provider.

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A provider links to a running node. For instance parity or geth.

A node has the ability to view and interact with the blockchain.

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  • This seems to me as the most accurate answer Nov 23, 2022 at 11:58
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https://api.myetherapi.com/eth is a provider. Web3 provider is a website running geth or parity node which talks to Ethereum network.

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    Link is broken...
    – whamsicore
    May 19, 2021 at 22:37
  • Looks like they have taken down the whole website. Jul 27, 2022 at 6:46
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Initial guess is that this is a web3.js Strategy Pattern to allow an underlying protocol e.g. https to provide access to a node. I will confirm later.

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