Functional Hedera network configured in HardhatUserConfig.networks

[hashgraph]

Functional Hedera network configured in HardhatUserConfig.networks

[dimitrovmaksim]

I think you have to setup the hedera network in the hedera network config

const config: HardhatUserConfig = {
  ...,
  defaultNetwork: "hedera",
  hedera: {
     networks: {
        customNetwork: { ... }
    }
}

and not in the hardhat network config as stated in the readme https://github.com/hashgraph/hedera-hardhat-hethers#configuration

[mshakeg]

I'm aware of that, however that requires using the @hashgraph/hardhat-hethers plugin. However, I would like to connect to the local hedera json rpc configured directly in HardhatUserConfig.networks as one would for any other local ethereum node e.g. ganache, etc.

const config: HardhatUserConfig = {
  defaultNetwork: "ganache",
  networks: {
    ganache: { // configure hardhat to use local ganache blockchain
      url: "http://127.0.0.1:8545",
      chainId: 1337,
      accounts: [
        ...
      ],
    },
  },
  ...
};

The reason is that using the @hashgraph/hardhat-hethers plugin seems to break other hardhat plugins as I've pointed out in some of the other issues I created: #28 #25

In addition hethers doesn't have all the functionality that hardhat.ethers has, as pointed out in these issues: #30 #29 #27

[mshakeg]

@dimitrovmaksim is there a reason y'all went this route over enabling standard network configuration within Hardhat? It makes for a terrible dev experience given that an entire ecosystem of hardhat plugins is inaccessible to Hedera devs.

It would be great if we could simply configure a local hedera network like @nomiclabs/hardhat-ganache and have hardhat work like it would using it's own local node or ganache

[mshakeg]

As shown in the example projects the hedera relay can be configured normally in hardhat networks