What are your local dev node recommended practices?

[burnto]

Hi all, coming from hardhat and hardhat-deploy, I used to use npx hardhat node when I wanted to run a local node with my contracts deployed and ready to integrate against as a client (to write frontends, scripts, etc).

How are all you all doing this with foundry? Is a hardhat project with foundry added still the best approach here, or is there a more foundry-only approach to running a local node and quickly deploying projects?

[onbjerg]

Currently you have to use something external like a local node, or Hardhat's node. However we will soon ship Anvil which is our own local development node. See #1037

[burnto]

Thanks, wasn’t aware of Anvil. Looking forward to it.