#Migrating away from hardhat-waffle

Our recommended setup used to include Waffle using our hardhat-waffle plugin.

We now recommend using our Hardhat Chai Matchers and Hardhat Network Helpers instead.

Migrating to these packages only takes a few minutes, as they were designed as a drop-in replacement. If you do so, you'll get more functionality, like support for Solidity custom errors and native bigint support, and a more reliable testing experience.

To learn how to start using them, read this guide.

# Using the Hardhat Toolbox

You can get our recommended setup by installing @nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox, a single plugin that has everything you need.

When you use it, you'll be able to:

• Deploy and interact with your contracts using ethers.js and the hardhat-ethers plugin.
• Test your contracts with Mocha, Chai and our own Hardhat Chai Matchers plugin.
• Interact with Hardhat Network with our Hardhat Network Helpers.
• Verify the source code of your contracts with the hardhat-etherscan plugin.
• Get metrics on the gas used by your contracts with the hardhat-gas-reporter plugin.
• Measure your tests coverage with solidity-coverage.
• And, if you are using TypeScript, get type bindings for your contracts with Typechain.