Use Hardhat

This example is inpired by the Getting Started section of Hardhat Documentation.

Prerequisites

• node

• yarn

Let's create a basic sample project

mkdir hardhat && cd hardhat
yarn add hardhat
yarn hardhat

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Welcome to Hardhat v2.6.8

✔ What do you want to do? · Create a basic sample project
✔ Hardhat project root: · /home/.../hardhat
✔ Do you want to add a .gitignore? (Y/n) · y
✔ Do you want to install this sample project's dependencies with yarn (@nomiclabs/hardhat-waffle ethereum-waffle chai @nomiclabs/hardhat-ethers ethers)? (Y/n) · y

Add the RPC nodes

Add the networks section to the hardhat.config.js file inside the module.exports like so:

module.exports = {
  solidity: "0.8.4",
  networks: {
    development: {
      url: 'http://localhost:8545',
      chainId: 595,
      gasPrice: 429496729610000,
      // Development built-in default deployment account
      accounts: ["0xa872f6cbd25a0e04a08b1e21098017a9e6194d101d75e13111f71410c59cd57f"]
    }
  }
}

To compile it, simply run:

yarn hardhat compile

Compiling 2 files with 0.8.4
Compilation finished successfully

You can run your tests with:

yarn hardhat test --network development

  Greeter
    ✓ Should return the new greeting once it's changed (554ms)


  1 passing (555ms)

Next, to deploy the contract we will use a Hardhat script:

yarn hardhat run scripts/sample-script.js --network development

Greeter deployed to: 0x3d3593927228553b349767ABa68d4fb1514678CB

Going beyond and reading the on-chain data

Using the hardhat console, you can interact with your deployed contracts.

yarn hardhat console --network development

Welcome to Node.js v14.18.1.
Type ".help" for more information.
> const Greeter = await ethers.getContractFactory("Greeter");
undefined
> const greeter = await Greeter.attach('0x3d3593927228553b349767ABa68d4fb1514678CB')
undefined
> await greeter.greet()
'Hello, Hardhat!'