General Advice: Hardhat Documentation vs Patrick's Examples (Lesson 6 > Tasks)

[Brentably]

I often see Patrick doing things that are different than how the Hardhat documentation describes.

For example, here is a link to the block of code where he implements tasks: https://github.com/PatrickAlphaC/hardhat-simple-storage-fcc/blob/main/tasks/block-number.js and here is the link to the hardhat documentation that explains how to create a task https://hardhat.org/hardhat-runner/docs/advanced/create-task. Patrick implements
const { task } = require("hardhat/config")
but the hardhat documentation implements installing hardhat-toolbox and adding it a different way.
What am I supposed to make of this? I am open to understanding things in new ways, but I'll likely forget the way Patrick explains how to do it, and have to refer back to the documentation at some point, and the documentation says nothing about the way Patrick is doing it, so it's just very confusing as to what I should actually code. I don't want to learn a super specific way from Patrick that is not referenced in the docs or that I can figure out in any other method. How does Patrick even know to do it this way?

Appreciate any thoughts here.

[krakxn]

Uhm, the links you provided lead to a 404 error - could you reply with the necessary information from the links? Cheers

[krakxn]

1. Got it. In the Patrick's code snippet, he is essentially doing it the same way as in the docs, it is just that the beginner plugin is not imported. The methodology of implementing tasks is identical.

2. About the plugin: The @nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox plugin bundles all the commonly used packages and Hardhat plugins we recommend to start developing with Hardhat.

3. Also, Patrick is not doing a super specific thing, I'm quoting snippets from docs below:

You can create your own tasks in your hardhat.config.js file. The Config API will be available in the global environment, with functions for defining tasks.
You can also import the API with require("hardhat/config") if you prefer to keep things explicit, and take advantage of your editor's autocomplete.
Creating a task is done by calling the task function. It will return a TaskDefinition object, which can be used to define the task's parameters.

The task's first argument is the task name.
The second one is its description, which is used for printing help messages in the CLI.
The third one is an async function that receives the following arguments:

taskArguments is an object with the parsed CLI arguments of the task. In this case, it's an empty object.

hre is the Hardhat Runtime Environment.

Hope this helped!

[Brentably]

Thanks :)

[krakxn]

Best of luck with the course! By the way, close the discussion for reference once you are satisfied with the best answer.

[Brentably]

How do I do that?

[krakxn]

For discussions in the Q&A category, selecting the best answer closes it