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@nomicfoundation/hardhat-ethers

nomicfoundation394.2kMIT4.0.0

Hardhat plugin for ethers

ethereum, smart-contracts, hardhat, hardhat-plugin

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Hardhat is an Ethereum development environment for professionals. It facilitates performing frequent tasks, such as running tests, automatically checking code for mistakes or interacting with smart contracts.

Built by the Nomic Foundation for the Ethereum community.

💡 This is the README for Hardhat 3, the new major version of Hardhat. For the previous version (v2), see this branch instead.

Getting started

To install Hardhat and initialize a new project, run the following command in an empty directory:

npx hardhat --init

This will take you through an interactive setup process to get started.

Learn more

To learn more about Hardhat, check out the documentation.

Contributing

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.

changelog

@nomicfoundation/hardhat-ethers

4.0.0

Major Changes

  • 29cc141: First release of Hardhat 3!

3.1.0

Minor Changes

  • 14b3042: Updated the minimal supported version of Node to v20 (#6982)

3.0.9

Patch Changes

  • d77ecab: Update ethers to v6.14.0 with Pectra support

3.0.8

Patch Changes

  • efa905d: Fix for corrupted Hardhat peer dependency version from pnpm.

3.0.7

Patch Changes

  • 93b30d5: Fix for getSigners against networks where eth_accounts is deprecated.

3.0.6

Patch Changes

  • 55924a7: Fixed a race condition in our ethers provider
  • 1d43aba: Updated the max fee per gas calculation to use eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas when available

3.0.5

Patch Changes

  • ebe5a5fe3: Added support for passing bigints as block tags

3.0.4

Patch Changes

  • 487cd4a81: Reduced the load time of the plugin
  • 84283d119: Fixed two issues related to contract.on (https://github.com/NomicFoundation/hardhat/issues/4098). The first one was about events with indexed arguments not being handled correctly. The second one was related to transactions that emitted the same event twice or more.

3.0.3

Patch Changes

  • a1e37a40b: Added support for listening for events with contract.on

3.0.2

Patch Changes

  • eb1ae069b: Fixed a problem when waitForDeployment was used in live networks.

3.0.1

Patch Changes

  • a9c159f96: The helper.deployContract now accepts transaction overrides

2.2.3

Patch Changes

  • 6dccd2915: Make getContractFactory's params validation more flexible.

2.2.2

Patch Changes

  • 7e013fa19: Upgrade undici

2.2.1

Patch Changes

  • 136f25a9e: getContractAt doesn't throw anymore if the given address is not a contract.

2.2.0

Minor Changes

  • f0310ec91: Add a deployContract helper

2.1.1

Patch Changes

  • fa2a98c8a: getContractAt() now throws an error if the address is not of a contract.

2.1.0

Minor Changes

  • 0d4a68043: Added new helper getImpersonatedSigner(), a shorthand for invoking the hardhat_impersonateAccount JSON-RPC method followed immediately by ethers.getSigner().

2.0.6

Patch Changes

  • 7403ec1d: Stop publishing tsconfig.json files

2.0.5

Patch Changes

  • 1de2a228: Fix an issue that was causing typescript projects to also compile Hardhat's source (#2260).

2.0.4

Patch Changes

  • 6afeeffe: Add equivalents in hardhat-ethers for getContractFactory and getContractAt that support passing Artifact, specifically getContractFactoryFromArtifact and getContractAtFromArtifact (issue #1716)

2.0.3

Patch Changes

  • def9cbb2: Reset the hardhat-ethers provider when a snapshot is reverted (issue #1247)
  • 571ef80d: Adds a custom formatter to better display BigNumber's in Hardhat console (issue #2109).