Getting Started with Hardhat

Resources and further reading

First project

$ mkdir my-first-project
$ cd my-first-project
$ npm init -y
$ npm install --save-dev hardhat
$ npx hardhat

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The first time you run npx hardhat, it will initialize a project for you.

Afterwards, you can run npx hardhat again to display the help and available tasks.

Running a task

Tasks come from the hardhat.config.ts file.

You can run an example accounts task that was created like so:

$ npx hardhat accounts
# ... lists accounts
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Running tests

The sample project comes with tests that use Waffle and Ethers.js.

You can run the tests with npx hardhat test.

I made some updates to enable importing of the contracts.

Deploying the contract

To deploy the contract, you can run npx hardhat run scripts/sample-script.js --network <network>.

In my case, I was deploying the contract to Rinkeby:

$ npx hardhat run scripts/deploy.ts --network rinkeby
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It will give the address that your contract has been deployed to like 0x80f891669AF2039371216f260DBEa2BB81f62628.

You can use the Remix IDE online to test out the contract deployed.