Better Deployer

Better deployer is a set of simple libraries that help with simplification of contract deployments. It allows for:

1. Unifying the deployment of contracts across tests and scripts.
2. Naming each deployment, and using vm.label under the hood so that they show up in the chain logs when you run foundry scripts or tests with -vvvv verbosity.
3. Saving all the deployments to a file, in case of a script, so that the file can easily be copy/pasted into another UI project. It also timestamps each run so nothing is lost.
4. Loading already-deployed addresses into scripts easily.

How it works

Without Better Deployer

Normally when you have a contract, in your tests you'd do something like

Cat cat = new Cat();
cat.meow();

then in your deploy scripts you'd do something like:

Cat cat = new Cat();
dumpToFile(address(cat));

then in another script when you want to interact with that contract you'd do something like:

Cat cat = Cat(loadAddressFromFile());
cat.meow();

You would have to implement the dumpToFile and loadAddressFromFile manually. You'd have to make sure files aren't overridden so old addresses aren't lost. Working with files/JSON files in solidity using foundry's cheatcodes aren't easy either.

With Better Deployer

But now, you can do something like so:

string memory deployFolder = "deployments";
string memory deployFile = "myDeployments.json";

BetterDeployer deployer1 = new BetterDeployer();
deployer1.setPathAndFile(deployFolder, deployFile);
Carrot carrot = Carrot(
    deployer1.deploy("mycarrot", "Veggies.sol:Carrot", "")
);
deployer1.dump(); // dumps to file

after you run the script, it will generate a file in deployments/myDeployments.json, with the name of the deployed contract and its address in there.

Later you can load the contract like so:

string memory deployFolder = "deployments";
string memory deployFile = "myDeployments.json";

BetterDeployer deployer1 = new BetterDeployer();
deployer1.setPathAndFile(deployFolder, deployFile);
Carrot carrot = Carrot(
    deployer1.getDeployment("mycarrot")
);

API

BetterDeployer.sol

setPathAndFile

    function setPathAndFile(
        string memory _path,
        string memory _deploymentFile
    )

Call this function to specify what file to dump to.

setPathAndFile

Dumps to the file.

function setSkipFile(bool _skipFile)

Skips dumping to the file. This is used usually in the setUp function of your tests, so running unit-tests does not generate an address.

function getDeployment( string memory deploymentName )

Gets the deployment by name, stored in the file previously set.

ChainDeployer.sol

Extends BetterDeployer for when you want to deploy to different chains. All it does is that it prefixes the names with <chain>_<deploymentName>.

An example of what this looks like is in the UTB contracts:

// in forknet_deployments.json
  "arbitrum_UniSwapper": "0xE3e5D4b00c96bc94353d4F48305C42e695A50e86",
  "arbitrum_utbExecutor": "0x1590031e710B6613598a71Fed598562Bfd012C9F",
  "base_DcntEth": "0xD058C88FA412f1a2Fc53844b280e4b0C075c6F10",
  "base_DecentBridgeAdapter": "0x0f34b97c3F0763be7a0522AB901e6eB4Fd355e60",