hardhat-servers

A hardhat plugin to mount static servers (HTTP and IPFS) from an in-project's local directory.

Installation

Install this package in your hardhat project (this was tested in a project depending on [email protected]) with the following command:

npm install --save-dev hardhat-common-tools@^1.3.0 hardhat-enquirer-plus@^1.4.0 hardhat-servers@^1.2.0

Then, in your hardhat.config.js file, just require it:

require("hardhat-common-tools");
require("hardhat-enquirer-plus");
require("hardhat-servers");

Usage

You'll have two new commands at your disposal:

HTTP

To mount an HTTP server:

npx hardhat serve http

The contents will be served from the in-project's directory: .local/http. For example, by hitting http://localhost:8081/some-image.png will serve the contents from the file .local/http/some-image.png.

This is meant to be only local, so ensure you .gitignore your .local directory.

See npx hardhat serve http --help for more details.

IPFS

To mount an IPFS stack:

npx hardhat serve ipfs

The contents will be served from the in-project's directory: .local/ipfs/content. The files are hashed and served directly from that directory (check the console as they are scanned, for the CID values will be generated there).

Again: this is only meant to be local, so ensure you .gitignore your .local directory.

See npx hardhat serve ipfs --help for more details (specially the ports that can be configured).

Closing the servers

Pressing any key closes each server.