viem-tracer

Debug transactions via traces by automatically decoding them with the help of openchain.xyz!

• Automatically append traces to error messages of failed eth_estimateGas and eth_sendTransaction RPC requests.
• Add support for debug_traceCall to a Viem client with correct types!

Installation

npm install viem-tracer

yarn add viem-tracer

Usage

import { createTestClient, http } from 'viem';
import { foundry } from 'viem/chains';
import { traceActions, traced } from 'viem-tracer';

const client = createTestClient({
  mode: "anvil",
  chain: foundry,
  transport: traced( // Automatically trace failed transactions (or programmatically)
    http(),
    { all: false, next: false, failed: true } // Optional, default tracer config
  ),
}).extend(traceActions); // Extend client with the `client.traceCall` action

// Returns the call trace as formatted by the requested tracer.
await client.traceCall({
   account: "0xA0Cf798816D4b9b9866b5330EEa46a18382f251e",
   to: "0x70997970c51812dc3a010c7d01b50e0d17dc79c8",
   value: parseEther("1"),
   // tracer: "prestateTracer", // Defaults to "callTracer".
});

// Failing `eth_estimateGas` and `eth_sendTransaction` RPC requests will automatically append the transaction traces to the error:
await client.writeContract({
   abi: erc20Abi,
   address: "0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48",
   functionName: "transfer",
   args: ["0xA0Cf798816D4b9b9866b5330EEa46a18382f251e", 100_000000n],
});

// 0 ↳ FROM 0xf39Fd6e51aad88F6F4ce6aB8827279cffFb92266
// 0 ↳ CALL (0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48).transfer(0xf39F...0xf3, 100000000) -> ERC20: transfer amount exceeds balance
//   1 ↳ DELEGATECALL (0x43506849D7C04F9138D1A2050bbF3A0c054402dd).transfer(0xf39F...0xf3, 100000000) -> ERC20: transfer amount exceeds balance

client.transport.tracer.all = true; // If you want to trace all submitted transactions, failing or not.
client.transport.tracer.next = true; // If you want to trace the next submitted transaction.
client.transport.tracer.next = false; // If you DON'T want to trace the next submitted transaction.
client.transport.tracer.failed = false; // If you don't want to append traces to failed transactions.

Note

You can disable colors via the colors package:

import { disable } from "colors";

disable();