Br setup typechain

[brossetti1]

setting up typechain

• right now I am ignoring the typechain folder to prevent clutter.

instructions

after installing typechain run:

1. npx hardhat clean
2. npx hardhat compile

this should generate the typed files:

[brossetti1]

I added the chain and mocha types to allow the tests to understand the keywords mocha defines (descirbe, etc) - its also recommended by hardhat

[brossetti1]

@codynhat one thing im noticing about this is how many dependencies it adds - dependencies this adds - anyways, food for thought i guess

[codynhat]

Does the typechain/ folder include the typescript outputs? Will we include this eventually?

[brossetti1]

@codynhat yeah the /typechain can be included - might be good to discuss what its good for because it generates a lot of files, some of the benefits I see:

• loading contract objects for testing through the generated models and factories
• exporting contracts to a typescript package so they can be imported and used in any project that is trying to interact with GeoWeb

I really like the way the nouns dao has setup their repo - you can see them doing this here:

1. see exported types
2. they gitignore a lot of typechain contracts
3. then they import these factories across their monorepo to interact with the deployed contracts

fyi - i also like how they do their sdk so you can carry contract addresses across repos:

addresses
loading contracts

thoughts?

I can add to the gitignore if you want to slim the files committed down. otherwise, I can include the /typechain folder

[codynhat]

I like that approach. I'm in the middle of writing new tests in typescript and it would already be valuable to have these.

The nounsDAO approach looks like a good one to follow. We have a few other projects that need the contracts exported from here, so something like that would be very useful. Feel free to update the repo to be that structure. It can be on this PR or a separate one.

[codynhat]

I think this will be good once #35 is merged first?