Lesson 7: Why so many Deploy?.......

[ArkX69]

Hi,

I am on lesson 7 of this course, I learned soo much so far. The thing running in my head is why are we having so many methods of deploying, so far Patrick taught us 3 methods to deploy the contract

1. By ethers
2. By hardhat-ethers
3. By hardhat-deploy

Which one is better and which should me used as a better practice

[paulcoffee85]

The reason why there are multiple deploy functions is that each tool has its own way of deploying smart contracts, and developers can choose the one that suits their needs the best.
For example:

1. if you are using Solidity to write your smart contracts, you would use the deploy function in Solidity to initialize the state variables.
2. If you are using Hardhat to deploy your contracts, you would use the deploy function in Hardhat to deploy the bytecode to the network.
3. If you are using Ethers.js to interact with the Ethereum network, you would use the deploy function in Ethers.js to deploy the contract and return an instance of the deployed contract.