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  • I’ve been a full-stack dev for years, mostly working with Node.js, React, and traditional backend stuff. Debugging there? Easy. You’ve got real-time logs, step-through debugging, even tools that straight-up tell you what’s wrong.

    Now I’m working with smart contracts, and man… it’s rough. No real-time debugging, no console logs like I’m used to, and once you deploy, that’s it—you can’t just push a hotfix. I’ve tried Hardhat, Foundry, and Tenderly, but I still feel like I’m debugging in the dark.

    For those of you already working as blockchain full-stack devs, how do you actually handle this? Any testing, logging, or debugging tricks that make life easier? Or do you just accept the pain and move on?

    Would love to hear what works for you.

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  • Benny Angela

    Member • 4d

    Yeah, debugging smart contracts is a different pain. What’s worked for me is a mix of thorough testing before deployment and using custom events for logging since you can’t rely on console logs. Hardhat’s console.log() is great for local testing, but once a contract is deployed, you have to depend on events and transaction traces. I also break my contracts into small, modular functions so if something goes wrong, I know exactly where to look instead of sifting through a giant codebase. Simulations on Tenderly help a lot too—you can replay transactions and see exactly where they fail. And yeah, reading transaction traces was frustrating at first, but over time, you start seeing patterns, and debugging gets a lot easier.

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