web3.js provides us with JavaScript APIs to communicate with geth. It uses JSON-RPC internally to communicate with geth. web3.js can also communicate with any other kind of Ethereum node that supports JSON-RPC. It exposes all JSON-RPC APIs as JavaScript APIs. It doesn't just support all the Ethereum-related APIs, but also supports APIs related to Whisper and Swarm.
As we build various projects, you will keep learning more about web3.js. For now, though, let's go through some of the most used APIs for web3.js. Later, we will build a frontend for our ownership smart contract using web3.js.
At the time of writing, the latest version of web3.js is 1.0.0-beta.18. We will learn everything using this version.
web3.js is hosted at https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js and the complete documentation is hosted at https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript...