lil-web3 VS hardhat

What's the hungup with normal tutorials? There's a plethora of tutorials online.

People recommend ethernauts and cryptozombies, but I found those quite slow when I was learning. Most useful for me was reading existing implementations of smart contracts, and learning from there.

M1guelpf wrote these a while ago, might be helpful examples: https://github.com/m1guelpf/lil-web3

happy to chat if you need help

If you’re trying to get started, lil-web3 is a github repo with lots of simplified versions of popular smart contracts. It should help you to grasp the core functionality before you try to understand all of the other content in each contract.

thirdweb is a pretty easy way to get started if you’re an experienced web developer. we use them internally at our web3 dev education startup for creating and sending nfts to folks who complete our tutorials.

we have a tutorial with them going on where we show you how to build a full stack web3 app with their sdks/platform. we’re rewarding folks who complete the tutorial with a bit of $MATIC and a cool nft[1]

another cool resource after you get your feet wet is this collection of tiny examples of popular web3 apps[2]

1 - https://www.pointer.gg/tutorials/thirdweb-nft-lootbox

2 - https://github.com/m1guelpf/lil-web3

beyond tutorials i also think learning by trying to build your own version of other projects is a pretty cool way to progress. Here's a cool repo that does this https://github.com/m1guelpf/lil-web3 , the author builds out mini version of ENS, opensea, etc

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