Writing scripts in Hardhat

[harshuo2]

Is it necessary to write scripts in our hardhat applications?
If yes, why is it so? What additional utility does it provide?
If no, then why have we been writing them regardless in our applications?
I've only covered till Lesson 9 and was intrigued to ask this question...

[0xSanyam]

@harshuo2 scripts are for our local deployments other use cases can be read here

[krakxn]

Well, the utility they provide in our case is, the scripts we used till lesson 9, namely, we used utils to get our contract verified on Etherscan, to enter Raffles, deploy scripts to deploy our contract, test scripts to test if our contract does what it is intended to, to identify problems etc. Hope this helps!

[ThomasHeim11]

Hardhat scripts are useful for simple things that don't take user arguments, and for integrating with external tools that aren't well suited for the Hardhat CLI, like a Node.js debugger.