Building locally

[fvictorio]

What is the recommended way to build and link this project locally? I looked around for a contributing.md or developing.md but didn't find one.

I'm trying to debug something in hardhat and I would like to be able to use a locally linked version with sourcemaps enabled. Is this possible?

[ricmoo]

If you use npm install on the root package it will hoist and build the rats nest of node_modules in each sub-package. Whenever you modify a package.json, you will need to re-run install.

Then you can just use npm link in the packages/ethers to create the local link and link into your package.

I think. I haven’t ever tried that last part, but should work. Let me know. :)

[fvictorio]

I tried that out but the linking didn't work for me. I also tried running the tests to check a change but the build script failed. I think it would be useful to have a basic guide on how to build, modify and test locally, and to validate that guide in a fresh clone (I can help with the validation if you want).

[ricmoo]

I've tweaked the docs a bit and tested on a new host. Can you try out the steps here and let me know if you still have any issue building it yourself?

[ricmoo]

I'm going to close this now, but if you still have issues linking locally, please re-open.

Thanks! :)

[fvictorio]

It just took me two months but: yes, it works fine now!