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I am finding it difficult to understand difference between these two.

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getSigners and getNamedAccounts are both used for the same purpose, getting public key for accounts.

Since you asked for getNamedAccounts I assume you are developing on a hardhat environment because it is used to retrieve accounts manually from the attribute namedAccounts defined whithin hardhat.config.js and it is an exclusive feature with the plugin hardhat-deploy.

In the other hand a signer in ethers.js is an object that represents an Ethereum account. getSigners helps getting a list of the accounts in the node we're connected to, which is probably the Hardhat Network.

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  • If I write getNamedAccounts instead of getSigners in my code, the code won't run. Here is my code link
    – amit
    Aug 15, 2022 at 9:30
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    getNamedAccounts configurations should be included in hardhat.config.js, u should have a similar code snippet. json module.exports = { ... namedAccounts: { deployer: { default: 0, }, }, ... }
    – jutsu
    Aug 15, 2022 at 22:19
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If I write getNamedAccounts instead of getSigners in my code, the code won't run ?

Because you are using named accounts. That's why getNamedaccounts results in an error. Check your hardhat.config, looking from gist you may have a Named account variable as deployer.

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  • Yeah right, i did!
    – amit
    Aug 15, 2022 at 15:25
  • javascript namedAccounts: { deployer: { default: 0, }, user: { default: 0, }, },
    – amit
    Aug 16, 2022 at 3:27

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