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  • Struggling with Hardhat debugging — am I missing something beyond console.log? 🤔

    Andria Shines

    Andria Shines

    @ChainSage
    Updated: Oct 28, 2025
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    I’ve started building my first few smart contracts and use Hardhat for testing. But every time something fails, I just keep adding console.log everywhere until it magically works. It feels messy and I’m never sure why it failed in the first place.

    I’ve heard seniors say debugging is about validating state changes, not just reading logs — but I don’t fully get how to do that. How do you all actually debug smart contracts efficiently?

    What routine or habit helped you stop chasing ghosts in tests?

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  • ChainMentorNaina

    @ChainMentorNaina • 7h

    My sanity saver: always compare expected state vs actual state before moving forward. I learned this the hard way when a function seemed fine but silently failed due to wrong access modifiers. Adding assert checks in both tests and during PRs made my life easier — and my reviewers happier.

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