Some Queries related to Deployer

[ashrth]

Hi @othaime-en @krakxn I am not able to properly understand what does getNamedAccounts( ) really do? Also importing getNamedAcounts and deployments in your deploy file is optional? Where are getNamedAccounts function and deployments coming from? My deploy script was working fine even without importing it. Also I am not able to get my head around this deployer thing, What/who is deployer? Why are we connecting it to our contracts when deploying, something that I know is, it comes from config file,(namedAccount) where we set deployer as "0". Why are we exactly doing it? There is a mention of players/users also, I don't understand that either(Why are we setting players/users). Also getSigners( ) function basically connects the wallet? And, Accounts and wallet are interchangeably used by Patrick? I am not even able to find the proper docs to learn it. (would appreciate if you could let know)
I am aware of the fact that are queries are petty and I am just missing something to connect the dots.
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Please bear with me if the questions I asked are a lot and not clear/ structured enough, Also, if you can answer these, could you please answer in the simplest way possible because if I could understand Patrick's or any documentations lingo I would have understood by now.

[othaime-en]

Hello @ashrth I recently explained this difference in this post. Please read through the discussion especially the marked answer and this comment if you feel you still don't understand, please feel free to seek further clarification.

[ashrth]

@othaime-en Ok, Let me just go to the discussions. Also, so far @krakxn has clarified a lot of the confusion, but I'll have a look at the discussion for a better understanding. Thank you very much.

[krakxn]

@ashrth I have kept this as simple as possible (or tried to), so feel free to ask questions wherever necessary.

"Where are getNamedAccounts function and deployments coming from?" They are coming from Hardhat; we "extract" it from the Hardhat package (hre = Hardhat runtime environment). These utilities are provided to us in the Hardhat package.

"My deploy script was working fine even without importing it" I will need context for this one; please post the code snippet if necessary.

"Also I am not able to get my head around this deployer thing, What/who is deployer?" If you look at hardhat.config, you will see that in the namedAccounts field, there is a deployer account. So, anything specified inside that field is essentially an "account"; therefore, think of deployer as an account defined in the hardhat.config--you can use any name you like; the functionality of them are quite really "test accounts".

"Why are we connecting it to our contracts when deploying," This is a bit advanced, but to put the "why" in the simplest way possible, deployer acts as an interface for the contract deployment. For instance, ethers.getContract("xyzContract", deployer) we "get" the xyzContract "connected" to the deployer. This essentially gives us the connection to the contract with the account deployer (things such as signing for txn. are enabled by this)

"Why are we exactly doing it?" It is just a test-account. In Injected Web3 (i.e. testnets and Metamask), we need an account right to create txns? Similarly, Hardhat is essentially a local testing environment to simulate real-world conditions. deployer is just an account; you can use your own username for convenience.

"There is a mention of players/users also, I don't understand that either(Why are we setting players/users)." We needed other accounts for testing, that is why we created more testing accounts like deployer. Again, for convenience, you can use a friend's name or some random convenient username so as to not be confused.

"Also getSigners( ) function basically connects the wallet?" Correct, it is similar to the one described above.

"Accounts and wallet are interchangeably used by Patrick?" Sorry, I do not recall this one. Could you share the code snippet or timestamp? Thank you.

"I am aware of the fact that are queries are petty" Asking the simplest things should be encouraged, do not worry, that is the best way to learn new things, especially in this space which is so new. (unrelated but it is just how the society has been for centuries; for instance, look at Galileo or any prominent reformer who questioned the inevitable "simplest things").

[ashrth]

@krakxn Final question, so deployer and player could also be named as account1 and account2 or ashrth and krakxn as they are just two different accounts?

[krakxn]

@krakxn Final question, so deployer and player could also be named as account1 and account2 or ashrth and krakxn as they are just two different accounts?

@ashrth Yes, you got it! :)

[ashrth]

@krakxn Thank you very much, all cleared!

[krakxn]

I would like to add that when going through docs by yourself, think of what it precisely conveys.

Unrelated but to draw an analogy, if you have gone through political/historical passages of any sort, you will realize that when you subconsciously think this way, you can easily "extract" the information it conveys and cut all the extraneous information. E.g. most political speeches convey, probably, a single line of information in ~5-10 lines and are just extended rubbish.

In this case, extract as much information as needed, and take a note of what can be useful in the future.

Good luck!

[ashrth]

@krakxn Thanks for the note.