A small tip for new people

[jmhickman]

(Apologies if Patrick covers this later in the course, I'm only in Lesson 6)

It might become tiresome to repeatedly type yarn hardhat some-other-command all the time, even while using the terminal's history.

You can set an alias in your .bashrc file (usually in the root of your user home directory) like so:

alias yarnhat='yarn hardhat'

It doesn't have to be 'yarnhat,' but you'll want to choose a name that's easy to remember and that tells you what you're doing.
Default .bashrc files will have some aliases built in, so just make a new line and add your alias.

Now, you can yarnhat compile and save a few keystrokes. 👋

EDIT: Forgot to add, you'll need to re-open your terminal for the change to take effect. (Or type . .bashrc inside your home directory)

[brown7477]

Very interesting:
Why not just use: alias yarnc='yarn hardhat compile'

[jmhickman]

That works too, but only for the specific compile command. What I posted will work for any yarn hardhat task that you see when you run the hardhat command without any options.

So you can yarnhat test or yarnhat flatten etc.

[brown7477]

I like that.

[brown7477]

I am definitely going to implement some useful shortcuts of often used commands.

[PatrickAlphaC]

You'll learn about the hh command soon :)

https://hardhat.org/guides/shorthand