- name
- setup-solidity-contracts
- description
- Set up a Solidity smart contract project with OpenZeppelin Contracts. Use when users need to: (1) create a new Hardhat or Foundry project, (2) install OpenZeppelin Contracts dependencies for Solidity, (3) configure remappings for Foundry, or (4) understand Solidity import conventions for OpenZeppelin.
- license
- AGPL-3.0-only
- metadata
- author
- OpenZeppelin
Solidity Setup
For existing projects, detect the framework by looking for hardhat.config.* (Hardhat) or foundry.toml (Foundry). For new projects, ask the user which framework they prefer.
Hardhat Setup
- Initialize project (only if starting a new project)
npx hardhat init # Hardhat v2
npx hardhat --init # Hardhat v3- Install OpenZeppelin Contracts:
npm install @openzeppelin/contracts- If using upgradeable contracts, also install the upgradeable variant:
npm install @openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeableFoundry Setup
- Install Foundry
curl -L https://foundry.paradigm.xyz | bash
foundryup- Initialize project (only if starting a new project)
forge init my-project
cd my-project- Add OpenZeppelin Contracts:
forge install OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts@v<VERSION>- If using upgradeable contracts, also add the upgradeable variant:
forge install OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts-upgradeable@v<VERSION>Look up the current version from https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/releases. Pin to a release tag — without one, forge install pulls the default branch, which may be unstable.remappings.txt(if not using upgradeable contracts)
@openzeppelin/contracts/=lib/openzeppelin-contracts/contracts/remappings.txt(if using upgradeable contracts)
@openzeppelin/contracts/=lib/openzeppelin-contracts-upgradeable/lib/openzeppelin-contracts/contracts/
@openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable/=lib/openzeppelin-contracts-upgradeable/contracts/Note The above remappings mean that both@openzeppelin/contracts/(including proxy contracts) and@openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable/come from theopenzeppelin-contracts-upgradeablesubmodule and its subdirectories, which includes its own transitive copy ofopenzeppelin-contractsof the same release version number. This format is needed for Etherscan verification to work. Particularly, any copies ofopenzeppelin-contractsthat are installed separately are NOT used.
Compiler version: OpenZeppelin Contracts v5 requirespragma solidity ^0.8.20. If deploying to chains that do not support thePUSH0opcode (some L2s), set the EVM version toparisin the compiler configuration (e.g.,evmVersion: "paris"in Hardhat,evm_version = "paris"infoundry.toml).
Import Conventions
- Standard:
@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol - Upgradeable:
@openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable/token/ERC20/ERC20Upgradeable.sol - Use upgradeable variants only when deploying behind proxies; otherwise use standard contracts.