Add hardhat

[luu-alex]

Description

• Adds hardhat to web3js testing infrastructure
• removes ganache from web3js testing infrastructure
• uses a hardhat-plugin i made to call hardhat custom methods https://github.com/luu-alex/web3-hardhat-plugin/tree/main

removes ganache test suites and tests hardhat http integration (as discussed from calls).
replaces ganache browser test suites with hardhat test suites.
personal tests are skipped as hardhat and geth do not support personal methods

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• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

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web3.min.js	601 KB	601 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/index.d.ts	8.63 KB	8.63 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/accounts.d.ts	3.89 KB	3.89 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/types.d.ts	2.45 KB	2.45 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/web3.d.ts	1.14 KB	1.14 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/abi.d.ts	999 bytes	999 bytes	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/eth.exports.d.ts	280 bytes	280 bytes	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/providers.exports.d.ts	148 bytes	148 bytes	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/version.d.ts	60 bytes	60 bytes	0	0.00%

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Benchmark

Benchmark suite	Current: 38dabb2	Previous: 6c075db	Ratio
processingTx	9609 ops/sec (±3.94%)	9301 ops/sec (±4.81%)	0.97
processingContractDeploy	42435 ops/sec (±6.79%)	39129 ops/sec (±7.62%)	0.92
processingContractMethodSend	19659 ops/sec (±7.37%)	19443 ops/sec (±5.19%)	0.99
processingContractMethodCall	39984 ops/sec (±6.24%)	38971 ops/sec (±6.34%)	0.97
abiEncode	45661 ops/sec (±7.49%)	44252 ops/sec (±6.92%)	0.97
abiDecode	31219 ops/sec (±8.29%)	30419 ops/sec (±8.89%)	0.97
sign	1604 ops/sec (±3.71%)	1656 ops/sec (±4.08%)	1.03
verify	382 ops/sec (±0.43%)	373 ops/sec (±0.78%)	0.98

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Codecov Report

Merging #6719 (a235820) into 4.x (4358140) will increase coverage by 4.65%.
Report is 163 commits behind head on 4.x.
The diff coverage is 95.84%.

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Components	Coverage Δ
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web3-errors	∅ <ø> (∅)
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web3-eth-abi	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-accounts	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-contract	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-ens	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-iban	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-personal	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-net	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-http	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-ipc	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-ws	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-rpc-methods	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-utils	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-validator	∅ <ø> (∅)

[Muhammad-Altabba]

Great work!
Could you please fix the failing tests which are not failing in other PRs?

[luu-alex]

@Muhammad-Altabba testcases are now passing, ready for review :)

[jdevcs]

Its not part of this PR but also update snapshot of tests so all unit tests should be passing. Thanks @luu-alex

[luu-alex]

@jdevcs muhammad updates it in his PR

feedback is addressed mentioned by Alex and Muhammad is OOO.