Generate empty hardhat_contract.ts file on postinstall

[carletex]

Just tinkering around. This PR might end on the trash :D

Since we merged #255 I was thinking about how we could improve it. I was thinking about generating an «empty» "hardhat_contracts.ts" file on yarn install.

This is a quick & dirty attempt to do so.

Does this make sense? I have some issues with contract.types.ts and am not sure if there is a workaround (is it breaking the narrow typing?)

cc @sverps

[sverps]

Your approach of generating an empty record as sort of 'default' contracts file gave me some more ideas to try out. I pushed a commit to your branch, it seems to be working nicely now, and I believe this is exactly what we wanted to have (the project being in a compilable state after just running yarn without the need to mess in the config. This makes it even easier to build a dapp without contract.

I even managed to remove the contracts import from the scaffold.config, this pass-through is obsolete with this solution. I also moved the contract.types.ts file to a more logical location (since it is not only used by our hooks) and renamed it to better reflect what it is for.

The only thing that I didn't get to work was the postinstall script. For some reason, it doesn't trigger when I run yarn. I have to call it separately. So not sure what's going on there.

[technophile-04]

The only thing that I didn't get to work was the postinstall script. For some reason, it doesn't trigger when I run yarn. I have to call it separately. So not sure what's going on there.

Did some digging and I think Yarn has some issues, it only runs postinstall scripts when there are dependencies changes. checkout this -> yarnpkg/yarn#5476

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I tried doing a fresh clone of the repo and ran yarn it generated the empty hardhat_contracts.ts file 🙌

[carletex]

This looks great @sverps Thank you!

There is only one thing left

The tweak I made for the Faucet & the autoconnect don't work, since contracts = {} is not a falsy. I guess we could:

a) Object.keys(obj).length check in the condition.
b) Default file being something like: export default false as const; (not sure how easy would be to fix the types)

I did a in 9913f5b, but if the types b are easily fixable, happy to switch.

The only thing that I didn't get to work was the postinstall script. For some reason, it doesn't trigger when I run yarn. I have to call it separately. So not sure what's going on there.
Did some digging and I think Yarn has some issues, it only runs postinstall scripts when there are dependencies changes. checkout this -> yarnpkg/yarn#5476
I tried doing a fresh clone of the repo and ran yarn it generated the empty hardhat_contracts.ts file raised_hands

Yep, also noticed this. In our case, I think we don't mind... since it'll be generated on a fresh clone.

[carletex]

Merging this since we are about to announce the SE-2 hackathon, and want this to be in :)

We can rethink some stuff later.