Now that hardhat at last started supporting esm, most important packages like hardhat-deploy should follow :) ! as currently we have to use .cjs for deployments
it might be just a matter of compiling to esm. I used to try that a while back, before hardhat was supporting esm and gave up because of hardhat not supporting esm. Glad it changed
Now that hardhat at last started supporting esm, most important packages like hardhat-deploy should follow :) ! as currently we have to use
.cjs
for deployments