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@phated/hardhat
Hardhat is an extensible developer tool that helps smart contract developers increase productivity by reliably bringing together the tools they want.
Hardhat is an Ethereum development environment for professionals. It facilitates performing frequent tasks, such as running tests, automatically checking code for mistakes or interacting with a smart contract. Check out the plugin list to use it with your existing tools.
Developed by Nomic Labs and funded by an Ethereum Foundation grant.
Join our Hardhat Support Discord server to stay up to date on new releases, plugins and tutorials.
🚧 You are looking at the development branch of Hardhat. For the currently released versions of Hardhat and its plugins take a look at this repository's tags. 🚧
Installation
To install Hardhat, go to an empty folder, initialize an npm project (i.e. npm init), and run
npm install --save-dev hardhat
Once it's installed, just run this command and follow its instructions:
npx hardhat
Documentation
On Hardhat's website you will find:
Contributing
Contributions are always welcome! Feel free to open any issue or send a pull request.
Go to CONTRIBUTING.md to learn about how to set up Hardhat's development environment.
Feedback, help and news
Hardhat Support Discord server: for questions and feedback.
Happy buidling!
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Hardhat is an extensible developer tool that helps smart contract developers increase productivity by reliably bringing together the tools they want.
We found that @phated/hardhat demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 27 May 2021
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