Testing, Compiling and Deploying smartcontract onto the blockchain using Hardhat

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Video Tutorial (Youtube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJvR2IpRLr8

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Documentations:

• Open-Campus Network Details: https://open-campus-docs.vercel.app/getting-started
• Open-Campus Faucet: https://drpc.org/faucet/open-campus-codex
• Open-Campus Explorer: https://opencampus-codex.blockscout.com/
• HardHat Documentation: https://hardhat.org/hardhat-runner/docs/getting-started#overview

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Steps to do:

• Install NodeJS.
• Initialise a Node project packake.json: npm init -y
• Install Hardhat as a dev-dependency: npm install --save-dev hardhat
• Initialise hardhat project: npx hardhat init
• Install the hardhat-ignition plugin: npm install --save-dev @nomicfoundation/hardhat-ignition
• Compile the already given smart contract: npx hardhat compile
• Test the contract: npx hardhat test
• Install dotenv as dev-dependency: npm install --save-dev dotenv
• Create and Configure the .env file:

DEPLOYER_PRIVATE_KEY="es2342534ds345ft......"
RPC_URL-"https://rpc.open-campus-codex.gelato.digital"

• Configure the OpenCampusCodex network inside the hardhat.config.js file:

    require("dotenv").config();
    require("@nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox");

    /** @type import('hardhat/config').HardhatUserConfig */
    module.exports = {
        solidity: "0.8.24",
        networks: {
            opencampus: {
            accounts: [process.env.DEPLOYER_PRIVATE_KEY],
            url: process.env.RPC_URL
            }
        }
    };

• Finally Deploying the smartcontract onto the blockchain: npx hardhat ignition deploy ./ignition/modules/Lock.js --network opencampus