hardhat

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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.

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Installation

To install Hardhat 2, go to an empty folder, initialize an npm project (i.e. npm init), and run

npm install --save-dev hardhat@hh2

Once it's installed, just run this command and follow its instructions:

npx hardhat init

Documentation

On Hardhat's website you will find:

• Guides to get started
• Hardhat Network
• Plugin list

Branches

Within the Hardhat repo:

• Hardhat 2 development is on the v2 branch
• Hardhat 3 development is on the main branch

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.

Follow Hardhat on Twitter.

Happy building!

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