DApp User Experience: Changing Accounts
Improving the user experience of your DApp by listening for “accountsChanged”
User Experience is one of the biggest roadblocks to onboarding users onto your Decentralised Application (DApp). Modern web browsers don’t support web3 by default, so most users have to interact with DApps via the Metamask browser extension.
Metamask allows users to alter the network and change their active wallet address from the extension.
Unfortunately, DApps won’t know when the user changes an account without specifically checking for it. This means that users will be presented with out-of-date information in the browser, which could confuse.
Metamask now allows you to listen for when a user changes their account in real-time with a simple piece of code.
Detecting Account Change
Assume that you have a function called getAccount() which connects to Ethereum and loads the active account being used. This occurs whenever the DApp is loaded.
