# Hardhat Artifactor

Dynamically generate deployable Hardhat contract artifacts.

## Installation

```bash
yarn add --dev hardhat-artifactor
```

## Usage

Load plugin in Hardhat config:

```javascript
require('hardhat-artifactor');
```

### Create Artifact from Template

Call the `createArtifactFromTemplate` function available in the Hardhat Runtime Environment to create an artifact with an ABI matching an existing artifact but with custom bytecode:

```javascript
await createArtifactFromTemplate('TemplateContract', 'GeneratedContract', bytecode);
```

### Overwrite Artifact

Call the `overwriteArtifact` function available in the Hardhat Runtime Environment to replace the bytecode of an existing artifact with custom bytecode:

```javascript
await overwriteArtifact('Contract', bytecode);
```