Package
hardhat
Hardhat is an extensible developer tool that helps smart contract developers increase productivity by reliably bringing together the tools they want.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 364.9k
- -5% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 18
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- today
- v3.18.0
- GitHub stars
- 8.5k
- 1.7k forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 598 / 14
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 3,277
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
364,897 downloads last week, 1,753,048 in the last month. The 12-month change of -5% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 63198 in total
- Latest version
- 3.18.0, 24 Sept 2026today
- First published
- 13 May 2012
- Last push to GitHub
- 24 Sept 2026same day as the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 598
- Open pull requests
- 14
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 3,277
- Dependents on npm
- 643
Major versions
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 13 Aug 2025
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 22 Oct 2020
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 13 May 2012
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 3.18.0 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| 3.17.0 | 17 Sept 2026 |
| 3.16.0 | 7 Sept 2026 |
| 3.15.0 | 27 Aug 2026 |
| 3.14.0 | 20 Aug 2026 |
| 2.29.1 | 18 Aug 2026 |
| 3.13.0 | 12 Aug 2026 |
| 3.12.0 | 30 Jul 2026 |
| 3.11.1 | 23 Jul 2026 |
| 2.29.0 | 21 Jul 2026 |
| 3.11.0 | 20 Jul 2026 |
| 3.10.0 | 16 Jul 2026 |
| 3.9.1 | 2 Jul 2026 |
| 3.9.0 | 8 Jun 2026 |
- Module format
- ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 4.0 MB
- Dependencies (18)
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npm install hardhatCDN
jsDelivr: 235.7k requests in 30 days
- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/hardhat@3.18.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/hardhat@3.18.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/hardhat@3.18.0
| Package | Weekly downloads | Gzip | Last release | Module | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @ethereumjs/util | 1.8m | - | 1 month ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| ethereumjs-util | 1.7m | - | 4 years ago | CommonJS | - |
| web3 | 590.1k | - | 1 year ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| @nomicfoundation/ethereumjs-util | 79.1k | - | 2 years ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| @tenderly/hardhat-tenderly | 6.2k | - | 1 month ago | CommonJS | - |
| @ethereumjs/rlp | 2m | - | 1 month ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| rlp | 888.8k | - | 4 years ago | CommonJS | - |
| @ethereumjs/block | 102.3k | - | 1 month ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
Indexability: Indexed.