What is hardhat and how to deploy your first smart contract using it?

Here is everything you need to know

hardhat is a toolkit that helps you to create, deploy, test, and run your smart contract.

Setup

Install yarn

npm install -g yarn

yarn init -y

yarn add -D hardhat

Create your hardhat project

npx hardhat

Click Yes for everything.

Project Structure

let's go to the contract folder and write your smart contract code

Create a deploy script inside the scripts folder

Now open 2 new instances of your terminal and

In one of them run

npx hardhat node

This kicks off the local blockchain pretty dope yep

In 2nd

// This compiles your contracts 
npx hardhat compile

// This 'll deploy 
npx hardhat run scripts/deploy --network localhost

Save the deployed Contract address

How to interact with your Smart contract from the terminal console

npx hardhat console --network localhost

const a = await ethers.getContractFactory('NFTee')
const b = await a.attach('YOUR_DEPLOY_CONTRACT_ADDRESS')

await b.getName()
// Output: Anish