Hardhat

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★★★★★4.2(585 reviews)

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Ethereum development environment for compiling, deploying, testing, and debugging smart contracts

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Hardhat is a mature, feature-rich development environment for Ethereum smart contracts with a Rust-powered runtime delivering high compilation performance. It offers extensive documentation, built-in testing frameworks, and a rich plugin ecosystem suitable for both beginners and experienced developers. Teams migrating from Hardhat 2 should review the dedicated migration guide.

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Pros

+Most popular framework
+Great plugin ecosystem
+Console.log

Cons

-Slower than Foundry
-JavaScript testing

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