What is Web3Provider any parameter?

[majorisgit]

Suggestion

const web3Provider = new ethers.providers.Web3Provider(provider, "any");
What is this any for in parameters? There is no mention of it in the main documentation.

[IanDorion]

This is the TS type. I guess since the provider may come from many source. It would be hard to define the type of the provider.

By setting it to any it allow any type to be passed.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/basic-types.html#any

[zemse]

Note that it's a JS string that is passed as a second parameter to the constructor and not removed by typescript compiler.

It means that the provider network is allowed to change. See #866.

[ricmoo]

The documentation can certainly be expanded, but here is what is currently included.