# Hardhat

## What is Hardhat <a href="#what-is-hardhat" id="what-is-hardhat"></a>

Hardhat is a development environment to compile, deploy, test, and debug your smart contract.

## Installation

Hardhat is used through a local installation in your project.

To install it, you need to create an npm project by going to an empty folder, running `npm init`, and following its instructions. Once your project is ready, you should run

```
npm install --save-dev hardhat
```

To use your local installation of Hardhat, you need to use `npx` to run it (i.e. `npx hardhat`).<br>

Hardhat will let you know how, but, in case you missed it, you can install them with `npm install --save-dev @nomiclabs/hardhat-waffle ethereum-waffle chai @nomiclabs/hardhat-ethers ethers`

## Quick Start

To create your Hardhat project run `npx hardhat` in your project folder:

```
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Welcome to Hardhat v2.0.8

? What do you want to do? …
❯ Create a sample project
  Create an advanced sample project
  Create an advanced sample project that uses TypeScript
  Create an empty hardhat.config.js
  Quit
```

If you select *Create a sample project* a simple project creation wizard will ask you some questions and create a project with the following structure:<br>

```
contracts/
scripts/
test/
hardhat.config.js
```

* `contracts/` is where the source files for your contracts should be.
* `test/` is where your tests should go.
* `scripts/` is where simple automation scripts go

### Create Contract

You can write your own smart contract or download any contract written by Solidity.

### Config Hardhat for Mainnet

* Go to hardhat.config.js
* Update the config with crendentials.

```
module.exports = {
  defaultNetwork: "mcpnet",
  networks: {
    hardhat: {
    },
    mcpnet: {
      url: "https://mainnet.ccn.org",
      accounts: [privateKey1, privateKey2, ...]
    }
  },
  solidity: {
    version: "0.5.15",
    settings: {
      optimizer: {
        enabled: true,
        runs: 200
      }
    }
  },
  paths: {
    sources: "./contracts",
    tests: "./test",
    cache: "./cache",
    artifacts: "./artifacts"
  },
  mocha: {
    timeout: 40000
  }
}
```

### Compile

To compile your contracts in your Hardhat project, use the built-in `compile` task:

```
$ npx hardhat compile
Compiling...
Compiled 1 contract successfully
```

## Deploying your contract

You can deploy the `Greeter` contract from the sample project with a deploy script `scripts/deploy.js` like this:

```
async function main() {
  // We get the contract to deploy
  const Greeter = await ethers.getContractFactory("Greeter");
  const greeter = await Greeter.deploy("Hello, Hardhat!");

  await greeter.deployed();

  console.log("Greeter deployed to:", greeter.address);
}

main()
  .then(() => process.exit(0))
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error(error);
    process.exit(1);
  });
```

As general rule, you can target any network configured in the `hardhat.config.js`

```
$npx hardhat run --network mcpnet scripts/deploy.js
```

## Reference

{% embed url="<https://hardhat.org/getting-started>" %}


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