# Hardhat 3 Project

This is a Hardhat 3 project, which uses the native Node.js test runner (`node:test`) and the `viem` library for Ethereum interactions.



## Project Overview

This example project includes:

- A simple Hardhat configuration file.
- An example contract called Counter.
- TypeScript integration tests.



## Install

To install dependencies, run:

```shell
npm install
```



## Building

To build, run:

```shell
npx hardhat build
```



### Running Tests

To run all the tests in the project, execute the following command:

```shell
npx hardhat test
```

You can also selectively run the `node:test` tests:

```shell
npx hardhat test nodejs
```



### Make a deployment to Next Testnet

This project includes an example Ignition module to deploy a contract to our testnet.

To run the deployment to Next Testnet, set your mnemonics in an .env file (MNEMONICS=...) and run:

```shell
npx hardhat ignition deploy --network next ignition/modules/Counter.ts
```