meta(anvil): make anvil a reth extension / sparse client

[sambacha]

Component

Anvil

Describe the feature you would like

anvil and reth should be best friends.

It makes sense to do this. It would make anvil more accurately produce EL client behavior because it is an EL client.

'sparse' client

A 'sparse' client would be like a reduced functionality client with certain checks disabled (like connecting to a beacon client, etc.). I would think this may be useful for reth testing in CI as well, maybe.

The reth_anvil client should support extensions. This does make sense w.r.t. custom RPC methods, as it would make extending custom methods much easier. Hot loading such modules would be very intriguing.

Additional context

Inshallah, we get this sooner than we got v1.0.0 foundry

[zerosnacks]

You are reading our mind 😉! reth-anvil is in the beginning stages but what you stated is effectively what we would like to do. It will build on top of Reth's SDK.

We are planning to maintain anvil until reth-anvil has most of the important features anvil has and users can start switching over. It will be so good - I can't wait for us to work on it and ship it.

Check out the https://github.com/foundry-rs/foundry/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22A-reth-anvil%22 label, if you have any concrete ideas for things you want to be in reth-anvil feel free to open specific tickets.

I'll turn this ticket into a meta-ticket for reth-anvil as it captures the idea well

[sambacha]

You are reading our mind 😉! reth-anvil is in the beginning stages but what you stated is effectively what we would like to do. It will build on top of Reth's SDK.

We are planning to maintain anvil until reth-anvil has most of the important anvil has and users can start switching over. It will be so good - I can't wait for us to work on it and ship it.

Check out the foundry-rs/foundry/issues (state:open label:"A-reth-anvil") label, if you have any concrete ideas for things you want to be in reth-anvil feel free to open specific tickets.

I'll turn this ticket into a meta-ticket for reth-anvil as it captures the idea well

Thank you for responding, I had not seen the label for this, very exciting indeed!