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just looked at a 3 year old project of mine – oh how times have changed

frontend
- create-react-app
- ethers
- didn't know how to monorepo
- *.module.css
- wagmi just for generating hooks for the contracts

smart contracts are maybe even more interesting
- hardhat
- ethers
- ethereum-waffle
- typechain
- chai

Hardhat + ethers was rough man 😭 

Want to believe Hardhat can make a comeback in V3 but not holding my breath.

DX Engineer | DevRel at OpenZeppelin | Building orbiter.host & bhvr.dev | opinions are my own

oh tell me about it

some of the legacy code that i have to deal with on a daily basis at coinbase use internal libraries instead of of wagmi/ethers which is even worse 😆

Totally agree personally, it’s hard to imagine using it any other way. Unfortunately I found out by joining OpenZeppelin that plenty of people still use Hardhat as the default, so I gotta keep up with both :( Would love to see improvements that change my mind but fundamentally it’s hard to see.

not sure what it would take for me to switch back tbh. foundry is really great and writing solidity tests in solidity just kinda makes sense 🤷‍♂️

I like baking /goodbread and building apps on web3 protocols. DevRel @ ENS Labs

kinda like an integration test when the contract depends on a certain type of proof that is generated from a js library https://github.com/gskril/private-delegate-statements/blob/main/apps/contracts/test/DelegatePools.test.ts

do you have a specific use case for writing tests in js?

i used to prefer js for the longest time until i tried foundry and never looked back

I still pick hardhat sometimes when i know i’ll want to write tests in js, it works pretty well with viem