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forge-deploy

A cli and associated contracts to keep track of deployments by name and reuse them in solidity.

It tries to keep compatibility with hardhat-deploy as far as possible (work in progress).

forge-deploy aims at providing the minimal set of function to provide an elegant deployment system for foundry.

Template to get started:

https://github.com/wighawag/template-foundry

Features

generate type-safe deployment function for forge contracts. no need to pass in string of text and hope the abi encoded args are in the correct order or of the correct type.
save deployments in json file (based on hardhat-deploy schema)
modular system based on templates and solidity library

Modularity

The system is modular. The deploy functions provided by default offer a basic set of feature but the system can be extended by custom function easily. See contracts/DefaultDeployerFunction.sol and how this is a simple library that you can provide yourself. The only thing forge-deploy really provide is the specific set of functions in contrats/Deployer.sol to save and get deployments

How to use

There are 2 way to get started, one without npm and one with npm

with npm

have a forge project with npm and cd into it

mkdir my-project;
cd my-project;
forge init;
npm init

add the forge-deploy package
```
npm i -D forge-deploy
```
This will install the forge-deploy binary automatically

add to .gitignore the generated files

cat >> .gitignore <<EOF

# forge-deploy
/generated
/deployments/localhost
/deployments/31337
EOF

you also need to allow forge to read and write on certain paths by editing foundry.toml:

cat >> foundry.toml <<EOF

fs_permissions = [
	{ access = "read", path = "./deployments"},
	{ access = "read", path = "./out"},
]
EOF

generate the type-safe deployment functions

add some scripts in the package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "compile": "forge-deploy gen-deployer && forge build",
    "deploy": "forge script script/Counter.s.sol --rpc-url $RPC_URL --broadcast --private-key $DEPLOYER_PRIVATE_KEY -v && forge-deploy sync;"
  }
}

Note how we execute forge-deploy sync directly after the script executiom. this is how forge-deploy will keep track of new deployments.

add a deploy script

add the file script/Deploy.s.sol with this content:
```
// SPDX-License-Identifier: UNLICENSED
pragma solidity ^0.8.13;

import "forge-deploy/DeployScript.sol";
import "generated/deployer/DeployerFunctions.g.sol";

contract Deployments is DeployScript {
	using DeployerFunctions for Deployer;

	function deploy() external returns (Counter) {
		return deployer.deploy_Counter("MyCounter");
	}
}
```
The deploy function will be called and as the script extends DeployScript (which itself extends Script from forge-std) you ll have access to the deployer variable.

This variable mostly expose save and get functions. Deploy functionality is actually implemented in library like the one provided here: "DeployerFunctions.g.sol", which is actually generated code from the command above: forge-deploy gen-deployer;
You can now execute the script via forge script
```
npm run deploy
```
Note that with anvil (localhost network), you need to set the DEPLOYMENT_CONTEXT env variable for forge-deploy to save the deployment
```
   DEPLOYMENT_CONTEXT=localhost npm run deploy
```
This is necessary for localhost which use chain id 31337 as by default forge-deploy will not save the deployment on that chainId (same for 1337). This is so it does not interfere with in-memory tests which also use chainId=31337

The DEPLOYMENT_CONTEXT env var also allows you to segregate different deployment context on the same network. If not specified, the context is the chainId

without npm

have a forge project and cd into it

mkdir my-project;
cd my-project;
forge init;

add the forge-deploy package

forge install wighawag/forge-deploy@v0.0.34;

build the cli directly from lib/forge-deploy
```
cd lib/forge-deploy;
cargo build --release;
cp target/release/forge-deploy ../../forge-deploy;
```
In the last step above, we also copy it in the project folder for easy access;

This way you can then execute it via the following:
```
./forge-deploy <command>
```
You could also download the binaries (if you dont want to use cargo): https://github.com/wighawag/forge-deploy/releases

add to .gitignore the generated file + the binary we just installed

cat >> .gitignore <<EOF

# forge-deploy
/generated
/deployments/localhost
/deployments/31337

# forge-deploy cli binary
/forge-deploy
EOF

you also need to allow forge to read and write on certain paths by editing foundry.toml:

cat >> foundry.toml <<EOF

fs_permissions = [
	{ access = "read", path = "./deployments"},
	{ access = "read", path = "./out"}
]
EOF

generate the type-safe deployment functions
```
./forge-deploy gen-deployer;
```
add a deploy script

add the file script/Deploy.s.sol with this content:
```
// SPDX-License-Identifier: UNLICENSED
pragma solidity ^0.8.13;

import "forge-deploy/DeployScript.sol";
import "generated/deployer/DeployerFunctions.g.sol";

contract Deployments is DeployScript {
	using DeployerFunctions for Deployer;

	function deploy() external returns (Counter) {
		return deployer.deploy_Counter("MyCounter");
	}
}
```
The deploy function will be called and as the script extends DeployScript (which itself extends Script from forge-std) you ll have access to the deployer variable.

This variable mostly expose save and get functions. Deploy functionality is actually implemented in library like the one provided here: "DeployerFunctions.g.sol", which is actually generated code from the command above: ./forge-deploy gen-deployer;
You can now execute the script via forge script

Note that you need to execute ./forge-deploy sync directly afterward

For example:
```
forge script script/Counter.s.sol --rpc-url $RPC_URL --broadcast --private-key $DEPLOYER_PRIVATE_KEY -v && ./forge-deploy sync;
```
with anvil and default account
```
DEPLOYMENT_CONTEXT=localhost forge script script/Counter.s.sol --rpc-url http://localhost:8545 --broadcast --private-key ac0974bec39a17e36ba4a6b4d238ff944bacb478cbed5efcae784d7bf4f2ff80 -v && ./forge-deploy sync;
```
Note that here we specify the DEPLOYMENT_CONTEXT env variable. This is necessary for localhost which use chain id 31337 as by default forge-deploy will not save the deployment on that chainId (same for 1337). This is so it does not interfere with in-memory tests which also use chainId=31337

The DEPLOYMENT_CONTEXT env var also allows you to segregate different deployment context on the same network. If not specified, the context is the chainId

Quick Start

Get anvil started somewhere:

anvil;

then copy and execute this and see the result

mkdir my-forge-deploy-project;
cd my-forge-deploy-project;
forge init;
forge install wighawag/forge-deploy@v0.0.34;
cd lib/forge-deploy;
cargo build --release;
cp target/release/forge-deploy ../../forge-deploy;
cd ../..;
cat >> foundry.toml <<EOF

fs_permissions = [
	{ access = "read", path = "./deployments"},
	{ access = "read", path = "./out"}
]
EOF
cat >> .gitignore <<EOF

# forge-deploy
/generated
/deployments/localhost
/deployments/31337

EOF
./forge-deploy gen-deployer;
cat > script/Deploy.s.sol <<EOF
// SPDX-License-Identifier: UNLICENSED
pragma solidity ^0.8.13;

import "forge-deploy/DeployScript.sol";
import "generated/deployer/DeployerFunctions.g.sol";

contract Deployments is DeployScript {
	using DeployerFunctions for Deployer;

	function deploy() external returns (Counter) {
		return deployer.deploy_Counter("MyCounter");
	}
}
EOF
DEPLOYMENT_CONTEXT=localhost forge script script/Deploy.s.sol --rpc-url http://localhost:8545 --broadcast --private-key ac0974bec39a17e36ba4a6b4d238ff944bacb478cbed5efcae784d7bf4f2ff80 -v && ./forge-deploy sync;

Reusable in tests

One great feature of forge's script that remains in forge-deploy is the ability to use script in tests.

This allow you to have your deployment procedure reusable in tests!

for example, here is a basic test for Counter. Copy the following content in the existing test/Counter.t.sol and run the test to see it in action:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: UNLICENSED
pragma solidity ^0.8.13;
import "forge-std/Test.sol";
import "../src/Counter.sol";
import "../script/Deploy.s.sol";
contract CounterTest is Test {
	Counter public counter;
	function setUp() public {
		counter = new Deployments().deploy();
		counter.setNumber(0);
	}
	function testIncrement() public {
		counter.increment();
		assertEq(counter.number(), 1);
	}
	function testSetNumber(uint256 x) public {
		counter.setNumber(x);
		assertEq(counter.number(), x);
	}
}

As usual to run the tests you can do the following:

forge test

More info

Note that the generated solidity is optional.

You can instead simply use the default deploy function

// SPDX-License-Identifier: UNLICENSED
pragma solidity ^0.8.13;

import "forge-deploy/DeployScript.sol";
import "forge-deploy/DefaultDeployerFunction.sol";
import "../src/Counter.sol";

contract Deployments is DeployScript {
	using DefaultDeployerFunction for Deployer;

	function deploy() external returns (Counter) {
		return Counter(
			deployer.deploy(
				"MyCounter",
				"Counter.sol:Counter", // forge's artifact id
				"" // no arguments: empty bytes
			)
		);
	}
}