It is time for Zeppelin Solidity - Remix integration

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Currently, using OpenZeppelin solidity libraries is limited to local machines and deploying on tools like truffle. IMO Remix is the easiest place to deploy contracts. When I'm teaching solidity workshops I always use remix because it's web based (no download) and beginners find truffle-config.js difficult to setup.

We should create a remix plugin for the solidity library that can grab OZ imported contracts from each file being compiled. Then add them to the batch being compiled.
https://github.com/ethereum/remix-plugin

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Hi @jschiarizzi,

I have gotten into using Remix more. What do you think should be in an OpenZeppelin Contracts Remix plugin?

Remix already supports importing via GitHub, and we can import a specific release version of a contract. See the following example:

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Using github to import the contracts is a good work around for this. i was imagining being able to use

import openzeppelin-solidity/contracts/etc..

the same way that I do when developing on desktop with truffle. I didn’t think of using github for the imports in remix though. I suppose it has the same result by doing that instead.

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Hi @jschiarizzi,

The main thing with importing using GitHub on Remix is to only import a specific release version, otherwise you get the latest version in Master.

For example, the following imports from OpenZeppelin Contracts 2.3

import "https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/blob/v2.3.0/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol";
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