This hardhat template comes with some setup scripts, tasks and an example docker compose service to get contract development into your app quickly.

The idea is that it can be dropped into any frontend project using docker compose easily. Allowing you to quickly iterate on contract development and integration with your frontend.

Clone the repo into your project directory:

git clone https://github.com/abhishekpatel946/Hardhat-Crash-Course.git hardhat

Deployed Token Address:

• TestToken

0x973Dc12Bd0496A4063A2b81EcE6A0979Ceb08e54

• CrowdFunding

0x5FbDB2315678afecb367f032d93F642f64180aa3

• SimpleAuction

0x5FbDB2315678afecb367f032d93F642f64180aa3

Etherscan Contract Creation Hash:

• TestToken

https://ropsten.etherscan.io/tx/0x22efa4f6f758432fc1a4dd759f495fed4fbc73792e7f4f0b99204b542be591bf

• CrowdFunding

https://ropsten.etherscan.io/tx/0xbaface72ab0d9b896f25b6471977210e46ff7ac0e136e7a4d8e3d88208eaf010

• SimpleAuction

https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0x797c09A52D0Fb5412C207FF4D07E525d10692877

Install all the dependencies

npm i

Run the test for all contracts

npx hardhat test

Deploy the contract in locally using hardhat network

npx hardhat run scripts/deploy.js

Note: Change the scripts/deploy.js and run the below command to deploy the specific contract.

Deploy the contract in testnet like: ropsten

npx hardhat run scripts/deploy.js --network ropsten

• Hardhat
• Waffle
• Chai
• Alchemy

Add the following service to your docker-compose.yml:

hardhat:
  build:
    context: ./hardhat
    dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
  restart: always
  command: yarn run dev
  volumes: 
    - ./hardhat:/app
    - /app/node_modules
    - ./<PATH_TO_FRONTEND_DIR>/contracts:/app/tmp/contracts
  ports:
    - 8545:8545

Once the service has been started with docker-compose up you contracts will be deployed to the localhost:8545 RPC. When you save the contract files they will be redeployed.

When contracts are compiled and deployed the output files are saved to /deployments/<network> in the hardhat container. Mounting this folder to a volume in the service as we did above with - ./<PATH_TO_FRONTEND_DIR>/contracts:/app/deployments means that these contracts will then be available in your frontend directory under /contracts.

First add your credentials to the .env.example file and rename to .env.

To deploy to networks other than localhost you can run commands like:

docker-compose run hardhat mainnet:deploy

For a full list of deployment commands for different networks see package.json.

There are a default tasks for interacting with the localhost network when it's up and running.

docker-compose exec hardhat accounts # fetch list of default network accounts
docker-compose exec hardhat balance <address> # Get balance for an address
docker-compose exec hardhat send --from <address> --to <address> --amount 10 # Send ETH from one address to another
docker-compose exec hardhat blockNumber # Get the current blocknumber