Lesson 6: accounts task not available on Hardhat

[SebasAran16]

Hii,

I am following the course and in Lesson 6 when seeing the Available Tasks of hardhat when typing:

yarn hardhat --help

I do not receive accounts as one of the available tasks, I would really appreciate if someone of you guys told me if that is due an update and is now done differrently or if is something that I miss.

This is what I get when trying to get the accounts:

yarn hardhat accounts yarn run v1.22.15 $ /home/useradd/hh-fcc/hardhat-simple-storage-fcc/node_modules/.bin/hardhat accounts Error HH303: Unrecognized task accounts

Thank you very much!

[alymurtazamemon]

@SebasAran16 It will not come by default, you have to create an account task and then require it inside the hardhat config file then it will appear with the above command.

[SebasAran16]

Hi, thank you very much. It is due an update, I thought I had something wrong...

[alymurtazamemon]

@SebasAran16 Yes, I was saying the same others have mentioned below. If you want to add an accounts task, You can do it in two ways:

1. Add inside the hardhat config.
2. Or create a separate folder called task and inside it create a separate file for each task.

You can view about tasks at timestamp: 9:26:13

[0xSanyam]

@SebasAran16 you are most likely using the latest version, if you are, then don't worry as the task accounts is not available by default.

[0xSanyam]

Here you can see it was available by default in the previous versions

[SebasAran16]

Thanks man, though I had something wrong... :)

[DorianDaSilva]

@SebasAran16 Did you try running yarn hardhat node to get the accounts & private keys? Or are trying to do something else?

[SebasAran16]

No I have not. So the accounts task is created when you have your node created? Thank you very much!

[krakxn]

@SebasAran16 The problem is that they removed it as a pre-defined sample task in the new Hardhat update, I have still listed it below if you want to use that sample task:

task("accounts", "Prints the list of accounts", async (taskArgs, hre) => {
    const accounts = await hre.ethers.getSigners()
    for (const account of accounts) {
        console.log(account.address)
    }
})

Hope this helped!

[SebasAran16]

Hi, thank you very much for explaining that, I thought I might be doing something wrong. I am trying to add it to the hardhat.config.js but I get some errors. Am I doing it right?

[krakxn]

Copying the above task should be sufficient; show me the errors

[SebasAran16]

I had pasted the code inside the module exports, so it was not in the proper place. Now I have added the task and it was sufficient! Thank you very much!

[promenox]

Hi @SebasAran16, depending on your experience, this may / may not be helpful.

Think of your terminal as a file manager; typing program names like yarn or npm or cd executes (runs) the program. The hardhat program - is built to look for the hardhat.config.js file in your working directory (programming location).

Now, think:

• yarn - installs, uninstalls, and runs the packages (programs) which you will use to help build your software.
• hardhat - provides services for building your software (like vscode).
• .config.js - is adding settings or modifying the functionality of your software.

So:
When you add @krakxn 's code to your hardhat.config.js file, you specify extra functionality for the program.

task(a. "taskName", b. "description", c. async (taskArgs, hre) => {});)

task is a function that hardhat.config.js will look for, it accepts 3 arguments:

• a. String for the task name.
• b. String for the task description.
• c. An async function that defines what the task should do (note: this is written with JavaScript arrow function notation).

require("@nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox");

// add code from @krakxn -->
task("accounts", "Prints the list of accounts", async (taskArgs, hre) => {
  const accounts = await hre.ethers.getSigners();
  for (const account of accounts) {
    console.log(account.address);
  }
});

/** @type import('hardhat/config').HardhatUserConfig */
module.exports = {
  solidity: "0.8.9",
};

After adding the code, you will be able to execute $yarn hardhat accounts.

[SebasAran16]

Hii, thank you very much for the explanation, as is my fisrt touch with terminal and package managers as yarn, I really needed that explanation, thank you very much. It was helpful.