Solved For now, you will always need the ABI to execute a call against the ethereum network with web3. A simple way is to reconstruct the function you wish to execute is to, either create a separate contract to call or use the trick here and add in the ABI or at least a part of it from the contract you wish to call. In case, I used a generic ABI of an approval call.
await this.state.currentAddress.methods.approve("0x8b4a5682189361ce56702260051900f74d76e08b", amount).send({from: this.state.accounts[0]});
I have the following line in react. It is how I think I could execute the approve
function, but it doesn't work. I can certainly get the contract ABI from an API but I want to avoid this. Is there any way to call the Approve function of standard ERC20 tokens via directly through contract address through web3 without having to import the ABI?