# Reading a smart contract function (JS, NodeJS)

**by Delbypoc**

This tutorial is for educational purposes only, I’m not responsible for any losses, damages, or other liabilities which may occur by using any info/code provided here(or anywhere else it is posted).

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I’m under no circumstances a Javascript professional (or a JS Ninja/Expert)!

The code is not production-ready! (only for learning purposes)

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to read a smart contract function on MATRIX AI NETWORK.

This is also a continuation of the last guide:

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and the one in which we deploy the contract

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I will use the following solidity smart contract for this example:

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We will make use of the following packages : ‘aiman’, ‘matrixjs-tx’, ‘bignumber.js’, ‘bs58’, ‘fs’.

You can install them by using :

npm install aiman fs

and declare them:

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Now I will initialize ‘aiman’ with a provider, read the contract ABI and put it in a variable, also declare the smart contract address:

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In the next function I will initialize a contract instance with the ABI, make it use the contract address and call the “get” method of the smart contract:

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Then solve the promise:

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The program will output the value contained within the “result” variable of the smart contract (the function got called with 152,58 as input parameters last time).

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The whole program source code can be found on the Github page: ([**Matrix-AI-Network-Code-Snippets/readingSmartContractFunction.js at main · CognitiveProcessing/Matrix-AI-Network-Code-Snippets (github.com)**](https://github.com/CognitiveProcessing/Matrix-AI-Network-Code-Snippets/blob/main/js/readingSmartContractFunction.js))

For more documentation on the packages used, you can check:

[**https://www.npmjs.com/package/fs**](https://www.npmjs.com/package/fs)

[**https://www.npmjs.com/package/aiman**](https://www.npmjs.com/package/aiman)

Also, check out the official Matrix AI Network Developer Portal: [**dev.matrix.io**](https://www.matrix.io/blog/dev.matrix.io)

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