From Remix to Hardhat: What Changes When You Go Pro (opens in new tab)

Remix spoiled me. Open browser. Write code. Compile. Deploy. No installation, no config files, no "why is this not working" at 11pm. Hardhat is the opposite of that. And honestly? That's the point. Why leave Remix at all Remix is great for learning. It is genuinely bad for building anything real. You can't version control it properly. You can't write proper automated tests. You can't integrate it with a frontend easily. Every real Web3 project — the ones actually shipping to mainnet — uses so...