In Lesson-7 Hardhat FundMe "hardhat-deploy" plugin seems redundant and overly complex

[umair-mirza]

Hi,

Just a personal opinion but having the deployment process modified with an external hardhat-deploy plugin and all the new weird syntax feels overwhelming. The standard way of deploying via deploy.js was much better and non-confusing.
I have been attending another bootcamp and they never used hardhat-deploy or hardhat-deploy-ethers for deployments. Just the standard way of creating a deploy.js script is good enough. I think it's better to not over-simplify some things because it can end up creating further confusion for students. Otherwise, I absolutely love how the instructor is teaching the course. By far the best teacher I've come across my whole career.

[PatrickAlphaC]

Thanks for the feedback!

If you prefer using just the normal deployment way, you can! The reason we like hardhat-deploy is that it keeps track of all our deployments for us, and allows us to cycle through deploy scripts easily without any customization. But yes, a lot of projects don't use hardhat-deploy, so feel free to just use the deploy scripts if you'd like!

[umair-mirza]

Actually, after going through the Raffle project I get the importance and easiness of using hardhat-deploy. Also, I wanted to thank you for creating the most elaborate and intuitive course on Web3 development and making it free for us. It not only teaches you to become a good Web3 developer but a good developer in general. Usually a course of this nature would charge thousands of dollars from students.

I believe this is the biggest contribution by anyone in the Web3 realm. The way you explain each and everything in detail is absolutely amazing, especially for us beginners. I recently took a Web3 development bootcamp that spanned over 10 weeks but I didn't learn as much as I learned in this course. Thank you again for giving us the opportunity to be a part of Web3 development space. If we ever achieve something in this space a huge portion of credit will always go to you.