Lesson 6: Hardhat deploys to same address every time

[qscottw]

Regardless if I set my own private key and rpc url,

running yarn hardhat run scripts/deploy.jsdeploys to the same mysterious address 0x5FbDB2315678afecb367f032d93F642f64180aa3 which seems to be a default address that came with hardhat.

Does that mean hardhat is not picking up the content in hardhat.config.js? What am I missing?

[pallab-nandi]

Hey @qscottw , No you are not missing anything. If the contract address is coming exact the same you provide then it is working fine. Since you are deploying in hardhat local network, this contract remains on your local only. The contract address remains same if you deploy it over and over but the data inside the contract address change according as what you provide. Well if you deploy the contract keeping all the data same in that case data inside contract address remains unchanged. I hope it answers your query.