remix-ide VS hardhat

https://github.com/ethereum/remix-ide Solidity

One of the most common IDE for writing smart contracts is the remix IDE hosted on ethereum.org. This is the fastest way to get started with writing Smart contracts with solidity. It comes with all you need, a web browser-based compiler and about 15 free Ethereum account loaded with 100eth coin. These coins are on the Testnet not the Mainnet so don't even think of spending them🙄.

Hardhat is a development environment specifically designed for creating EVM smart contracts. It offers a comprehensive set of tools that make it indispensable for serious smart contract development. With Hardhat, you have access to a variety of useful features. It provides a local blockchain node, which allows you to test your contracts with no cost. You can also replicate the state of testnet and mainnet blockchains by forking them to your local blockchain node. Additionally, Hardhat offers features like block and time manipulation on your local blockchain node! There are also useful addons such as smart contract verification for blockchain explorer. Without this tool, I would needed to invest a lot more time and money to develop and test my smart contracts.

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.