Hardhat

Overview

Hardhat is the most popular Ethereum development environment. It provides local blockchain (Hardhat Network), Solidity compilation, testing framework, deployment scripts, and debugging tools. Extensible with plugins for verification, gas reporting, and coverage.

Instructions

Step 1: Setup

mkdir my-contract && cd my-contract
npm init -y
npm install --save-dev hardhat @nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox
npx hardhat init    # choose TypeScript project

Step 2: Write Tests