how to make getAccounts() return a list of all 10 accounts?

Question

I am using Truffle Development (or Ganache at times) and the problem is web3.eth.accounts is only one account and not the list of all 10 accounts

I want to get hold of at least first two so that I can do token transfer (ERC721) using safeTransferFrom

For now I have just hardcoded the second parameter (to account) and that works, but every time I switch Development to Ganche I have to recode the second account, which is not nice.

I have tried all kinds of ways for getAccounts (callback or promise) but no use.

For example:

web3.eth.getAccounts((error, accounts) => {
  this.setState( {accounts : accounts} );
}

Answer 1

You can get the accounts by writing an async function, and using await, like this:

async function yourFunc() {
    const provider = ganache.provider();
    const web3 = new Web3(provider);
    const accounts = await web3.eth.getAccounts();

    for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++)
        console.log('account['+i+']: '+accounts[i]);
}

yourFunc().then();

FYI: If what you're trying to do is deploy a contract to the ganache provider for local testing, I've posted a fully working code sample here. Please upvote if this helps you.