Contract interaction in our Deploy scripts

[Benrockiee]

Do we have to Interact with our contracts whenever we write deploy scripts and how do we know which particular function to interact with if so?

[krakxn]

Their primary use itself is for deploying our contracts, here is an example:
This creates a contract factory SimpleStorageFactory of contract SimpleStorage.sol and then deploys the contract factory which essentially deploys our contract.

const SimpleStorageFactory = await ethers.getContractFactory(
        "SimpleStorage"
    )
    console.log("Deploying contract...")
    const simpleStorage = await SimpleStorageFactory.deploy()
    await simpleStorage.deployed()
    console.log(`Currently deployed to: ${simpleStorage.address}`)

Let me know if this helped, goodluck with your course!