hardhat-template VS hardhat

It seems like every single week, I see things about Foundry. As someone that has been using a fairly standard Hardhat template for my projects the past year, I feel like this gets the job done, but I am wondering what I am missing?

To help getting started easier I am looking into some boilerplate starter kits such as https://github.com/paulrberg/solidity-template etc. Basic question, but what is the best practice in terms of organizing your smart contract dev stuff such as .sol files, hardhat, solhint, solcover, etc. with your front-end (website) dApp code? Do you keep everything in one repository? Do you keep them separated? The front-end part (let's say Sveltekit for example) and ethers.js need the ABI json right? When you deploy your front-end website and are keeping everything in one repo, should you exclude your contract files from the build? I suppose the JS framework will already exclude folders like /contracts that are in the root from the build.

I also really like this template for a web3+React website with a simple connect button: https://github.com/PaulRBerg/solidity-template

..and if you are looking for a general toolchain I really love the starter template here: https://github.com/PaulRBerg/solidity-template

Hardhat is an Ethereum development framework for creating, testing and deploying smart contracts. It includes a suite of tools that aid in developing smart contracts and managing the complete development process, allowing developers to write scripts, compile, test, and deploy efficiently.

That's it for the first part ! Then we will use Hardhat to deploy our Solidity Contract on the Polygon testnet, and then overload our mintNFT() function with the actual minting. If you want to see the Part 2 quickly, give us some love and we will execute ! ❤️❤️❤️

To keep things simple and visible (in case you cant deploy), we will use Sepolia testnet blockchain and Hardhat as development environment, so to configure hardhat to use sepolia we need to add the following configuration to the hardhat.config.js file:

The documentation has no mention of Trezor wallet support. According to this GitHub issue I could try out this Frame application, but I was wondering if there was a simpler solution that didn't require installing some 3rd party application.

I have two skipped tests because at the time of writing this article events firing doesn't work properly in the latest version. Link to the github issue

Hardhat

Other options include Remix (an IDE), ChainIDE, Anchor (for Solana), Hardhat, and lots of others. Web3 dev environments have come a long way in a short time, and there’s probably something out there for whatever you need.

Hardhat allows developers to build, test, and deploy smart contracts and dApps using a variety of tools and libraries. With over 114K users on GitHub and an active Discord community, Hardhat is a hugely popular framework for dApp developers. Much of its popularity can be attributed to its rich list of features, flexibility and the Hardhat Ethereum Virtual Machine for testing and debugging smart contracts.

The hardhat-ethers plugin adds the ethers.js library to the Hardhat node, making it possible to use its functionalities. It's possible to use it to deploy the contract, but since our goal is to create transactions, we can also add some code to do that as well.

Also learning how to use one of these development environments instead of Remix is necessary: 1. Hardhat: https://hardhat.org 2. Foundry: https://github.com/foundry-rs/foundry