What is the correct way to refer to polkadot js api?

Question

I have noticed several different spellings of the polkadot js api:

As a moderator I would like to know what the correct way to refer to this api is so that I can correct spelling mistakes such as this one:

PolkaDotJS API

Found here:

• How to get historical substrate (extrinsic, events, etc) data using polkaDotJS API

polkadotJS api? polkadot-js api? polkadot-js/api? @polkadot/api? polkadot js api? Polkadot JS?

Answer 1

In the Polkadot-JS API README, it is written as:

The Polkadot-JS API provides easy-to-use wrappers around JSONRPC calls that flow from an application to a node.

• @polkadot/api: this is a valid way to reference the NPM package, where @polkadot is the namespace for all of the packages: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36667258/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-at-prefix-on-npm-packages

• Polkadot-JS: this refers to all of the packages, not just the API. For example Polkadot-JS Apps, Polkadot-JS Extension, etc...

I personally write it as Polkadot JS with a space instead of a hyphen, because I don't think it really matters.