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Hardhat plugin always rebuilds typechain artifacts

See original GitHub issue

Bug with the @typechain/hardhat package.

When using the typechain plugin for hardhat, typechain artifacts will always be rebuilt, even if the smart contracts haven’t changed. While this isn’t breaking, it adds an additional few seconds to every time a hardhat command is run.

Is there any way that the plugin could detect that the typechain artifacts are out of date? Perhaps check the modified time of the artifacts compared to the source solidity files and only regenerate if needed?

I’d be interested in fixing this and submitting it as a PR if it’s not already in progress.

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Created 3 years ago
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Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

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Remscarcommented, Sep 11, 2021

Wanted to come back and say thank you so much for adding this feature. Really appreciate it!

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alcuadradocommented, Mar 16, 2021

@alcuadrado any suggestions? Perhaps we could use the same machinery as hardhat uses internally to realize which files need recompiling.

Pretty sure you can. Will think about it and get back to this tomorrow.

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