From 8790db0669843a72568e0bf533a5b522ca88a75a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stubbsta <tanya.steyn22@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:57:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] add option to provide the RPC URL for a localhost network
 deployment

---
 .env.example      | 1 +
 hardhat.config.ts | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index a041c5d..dc12235 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 ETHERSCAN_API_KEY=<YOUR_ETHERSCAN_KEY>
 SEPOLIA_URL=https://eth-sepolia.alchemyapi.io/v2/<YOUR ALCHEMY KEY>
 PRIVATE_KEY=<YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY>
+RPC_PROVIDER=http://<RPC_IP>:<RPC_PORT>
diff --git a/hardhat.config.ts b/hardhat.config.ts
index ed6662b..98d68cf 100644
--- a/hardhat.config.ts
+++ b/hardhat.config.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ import "hardhat-gas-reporter";
 import "solidity-docgen";
 
 dotenv.config();
-const { SEPOLIA_URL, PRIVATE_KEY, ETHERSCAN_API_KEY } = process.env;
+const { SEPOLIA_URL, PRIVATE_KEY, ETHERSCAN_API_KEY, RPC_PROVIDER } =
+  process.env;
 
 const getNetworkConfig = (): NetworksUserConfig | undefined => {
   if (SEPOLIA_URL && PRIVATE_KEY) {
@@ -34,6 +35,12 @@ const getNetworkConfig = (): NetworksUserConfig | undefined => {
         url: "http://localhost:8545",
       },
     };
+  } else if (RPC_PROVIDER) {
+    return {
+      localhost_integration: {
+        url: RPC_PROVIDER,
+      },
+    };
   }
   return undefined;
 };

From 23549614cafee588c127f15f3ea09adf0e0f0187 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stubbsta <tanya.steyn22@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:12:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] deploy localhost uses provided RPC URL or default

---
 hardhat.config.ts | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hardhat.config.ts b/hardhat.config.ts
index 98d68cf..2e1d9e8 100644
--- a/hardhat.config.ts
+++ b/hardhat.config.ts
@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ const getNetworkConfig = (): NetworksUserConfig | undefined => {
         url: "http://localhost:8545",
       },
     };
-  } else if (RPC_PROVIDER) {
+  } else {
+    const LOCALHOST_PROVIDER = RPC_PROVIDER || "http://localhost:8545";
     return {
       localhost_integration: {
-        url: RPC_PROVIDER,
+        url: LOCALHOST_PROVIDER,
       },
     };
   }
-  return undefined;
 };
 
 // You need to export an object to set up your config