hardhat-deploy-ethers not working within tasks (ethers.getContract)

[0xCardiE]

Wondering if it is possible to get hardhat-deploy-ethers working with hh tasks.
I Iinstalled hardhat-deploy-ethers correctly and it works in tests and deploys but when I try to run it in tasks or scripts I get
No Contract deployed with name MyContract
it is called as usual with
const contract = await ethers.getContract("MyContract");

I can get it working with getContractAt and passing in hex of contract but then this is not so practical and seems that then already deployed contracts are not auto fetchable or I miss some config?

[alymurtazamemon]

@adriadrop In the deploy scripts and tests we get the deployed contracts with the help of fixtures that is the reason when you run deploy scripts or tests you do not face this. But tasks are separate things and when we run those we do not deploy contracts with them like deploy scripts and tests.

So for running tasks you need to run the hardhat node in another terminal, it will run the deploy scripts and all of the contracts will be available in tasks.

[alymurtazamemon]

@adriadrop and make sure when you run scripts you should add --network localhost

[0xCardiE]

Ohh I did forget to mention as I thought it was given, I did run hh node in another terminal so that is why I expected it would work. As I could get balances of wallets but not deployed contract. What seems to work is this --network localhost

I was confused that hardhat and localhost were the same network so I thought when I run hh node it was hh network. In fact its localhost and hh network is just when you spin scripts and is in-process so this was the problem. thnx for input