Hardhat Template

A Hardhat-based template for developing Solidity smart contracts, with sensible defaults.

• Hardhat: compile, run and test smart contracts
• TypeChain: generate TypeScript bindings for smart contracts
• Ethers: renowned Ethereum library and wallet implementation
• Solhint: code linter
• Solcover: code coverage
• Prettier Plugin Solidity: code formatter

Getting Started

Click the Use this template button at the top of the page to create a new repository with this repo as the initial state.

Features

This template builds upon the frameworks and libraries mentioned above, so for details about their specific features, please consult their respective documentations.

For example, for Hardhat, you can refer to the Hardhat Tutorial and the Hardhat Docs. You might be in particular interested in reading the Testing Contracts section.

Sensible Defaults

This template comes with sensible default configurations in the following files:

├── .commitlintrc.yml
├── .editorconfig
├── .eslintignore
├── .eslintrc.yml
├── .gitignore
├── .prettierignore
├── .prettierrc.yml
├── .solcover.js
├── .solhintignore
├── .solhint.json
├── .yarnrc.yml
└── hardhat.config.ts

GitHub Actions

This template comes with GitHub Actions pre-configured. Your contracts will be linted and tested on every push and pull request made to the main branch.

Note though that to make this work, you must use your INFURA_API_KEY and your MNEMONIC as GitHub secrets.

You can edit the CI script in .github/workflows/ci.yml.

Conventional Commits

This template enforces the Conventional Commits standard for git commit messages. This is a lightweight convention that creates an explicit commit history, which makes it easier to write automated tools on top of.

Git Hooks

This template uses Husky to run automated checks on commit messages, and Lint Staged to automatically format the code with Prettier when making a git commit.

Usage

Pre Requisites

Before being able to run any command, you need to create a .env file and set a BIP-39 compatible mnemonic as an environment variable. You can follow the example in .env.example. If you don't already have a mnemonic, you can use this website to generate one.

Then, proceed with installing dependencies:

$ yarn install

Compile

Compile the smart contracts with Hardhat:

$ yarn compile

TypeChain

Compile the smart contracts and generate TypeChain bindings:

$ yarn typechain

Test

Run the tests with Hardhat:

$ yarn test

Lint Solidity

Lint the Solidity code:

$ yarn lint:sol

Lint TypeScript

Lint the TypeScript code:

$ yarn lint:ts

Coverage

Generate the code coverage report:

$ yarn coverage

Report Gas

See the gas usage per unit test and average gas per method call:

$ REPORT_GAS=true yarn test

Clean

Delete the smart contract artifacts, the coverage reports and the Hardhat cache:

$ yarn clean

Deploy

Deploy the contracts to Hardhat Network:

$ yarn deploy --greeting "Bonjour, le monde!"

Tips

Syntax Highlighting

If you use VSCode, you can get Solidity syntax highlighting with the hardhat-solidity extension.

Using GitPod

GitPod is an open-source developer platform for remote development.

To view the coverage report generated by yarn coverage, just click Go Live from the status bar to turn the server on/off.

License

MIT © Paul Razvan Berg