Hardhat is a task runner for Ethereum smart contract developers. 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.
Developed by Nomic Labs and funded by an Ethereum Foundation grant.
Join our Hardhat Support Discord server to stay up to date on new releases, plugins and tutorials.
🚧 For the most recently published code, look at the master branch 🚧
The recommended way of using Hardhat is through a local installation in your project. This way your environment will be reproducible and you will avoid future version conflicts. To use it in this way you will need to prepend npx to run it (i.e. npx hardhat). To install locally initialize your npm project using npm init and follow the instructions. Once ready run:
npm install --save-dev @nomiclabs/hardhat
On Hardhat's website you will find:
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.
Hardhat Support Discord server: for questions and feedback.
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