To Test Locally

First run your local server.

npx hardhat node

Second deploy the smart contract.

npx hardhat run scripts/deploy.js --network localhost

Finally.

npm run dev 

Basic Sample Hardhat Project

This project demonstrates a basic Hardhat use case. It comes with a sample contract, a test for that contract, a sample script that deploys that contract, and an example of a task implementation, which simply lists the available accounts.

Try running some of the following tasks:

npx hardhat accounts
npx hardhat compile
npx hardhat clean
npx hardhat test
npx hardhat node
node scripts/sample-script.js
npx hardhat help