dependencies conflict: nomicfoundation & hardhat-deploy-ethers

[SashaFlores]

Hi
I'm trying to implement the course tech stack in my project and facing some serious blockages so any help will be appreciated:

@nomiclabs/hardhat-ethers is an essential peer dependency to hardhat-deploy-ethers but that will prevent me from installing @nomicfoundation/chai-matchers due to conflict, I looked up a resolution here wighawag/hardhat-deploy-ethers#27 but it looks like it's not resolved yet!!

I need both hardhat-deploy-ethers & chai-matchers for testing.

thanks in advance

[SashaFlores]

@PatrickAlphaC any resolution that you're aware of? Thanks

[alymurtazamemon]

@SashaFlores You can instead install with this command;

npm i <dependency> --force

[SashaFlores]

Thanks for your response, it's just sad that the creators of these plugins/extensions/dependencies wouldn't bother updating their work deploy-ethers issue has been open for a while; without modification. Anyhow I found a workaround that is working so far

  "devDependencies": {
    "@nomicfoundation/hardhat-chai-matchers": "^1.0.5",
    "@nomiclabs/hardhat-ethers": "npm:hardhat-deploy-ethers@^0.3.0-beta.13",
    "@nomiclabs/hardhat-etherscan": "^3.1.5",
    "@nomiclabs/hardhat-solhint": "^3.0.0",
    "@openzeppelin/contracts": "^4.8.1",
    "@openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable": "^4.8.0",
    "dotenv": "^16.0.3",
    "ethers": "^5.7.2",
    "hardhat": "^2.12.6",
    "hardhat-deploy": "^0.11.22",
    "hardhat-gas-reporter": "^1.0.9",
    "prettier": "^2.8.2",
    "prettier-plugin-solidity": "^1.1.1",
    "solidity-coverage": "^0.8.2"
  },
  "overrides": {
    "@nomicfoundation/hardhat-chai-matchers": {
      "@nomiclabs/hardhat-ethers": "$@nomiclabs/hardhat-ethers"
    }
  }

[jajosheni]

@PatrickAlphaC could you give a possible solution / alternative for this. I'm stuck with the course because of this :/
thanks

[jajosheni]

I got rid of "@nomiclabs/hardhat-ethers": "npm:hardhat-deploy-ethers@^0.3.0-beta.13" and it seems to work just fine

[SashaFlores]

@jajosheni Hi Patrick left ChainLink and started an audit company for smart contract auditing services.
if you get rid of this dependency, you won't be able to use hardhat-deploy-ethers
if you don't need this will be fine but you will @nomicfoundation-toolbox to get ethers, chai-matchers, and other packages

• installing a dependency with force, make it break at some point
• since I need deploy-ethers I overwritten the package as shown above and it has been working just fine so far.

[alymurtazamemon]

@SashaFlores Patrick did not leave Chainlink just his role is now different there. @jajosheni Please create a separate discussion and tag me there with your query.

[PatrickAlphaC]

Sort of both is true ahah. I'm an advisor with Chainlink labs now.