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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.
Built by the Nomic Foundation for the Ethereum community.
Join our Hardhat Support Discord server to stay up to date on new releases, plugins and tutorials.
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 building!
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Brownie is a Python-based development and testing framework for smart contracts targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine. It is similar to Hardhat in terms of functionalities but is more suited for developers who prefer Python over JavaScript.
FAQs
Hardhat is an extensible developer tool that helps smart contract developers increase productivity by reliably bringing together the tools they want.
The npm package hardhat receives a total of 316,509 weekly downloads. As such, hardhat popularity was classified as popular.
We found that hardhat demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 16 Sep 2022
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