Modules deployment scripts

[tuler]

We have a set of "modules", and each module consists of a set of contracts, with inter-dependencies.
We started with hardhat years ago. Each module is a npm package.
Each package is published to npmjs.com, and contains: solidity code, ABIs, bindings and deployment files produced by hardhat-deploy (json files).

A year ago we partially switched to forge, mainly for testing.
We didn't abandon hardhat completely because of deployment.

Since then I see forge evolved and now we have forge script, which is the recommended way of handling more complex deployments, instead of just calling forge create.

My question is how do we organize complex deployment scenarios.
Do all deployments need to be executed in a single script class, or can we chain scripts somehow?
Can we store and load broadcast files somehow, so one script use deployment information from a previous one?
Can we use fork somehow in this scenario? Is there any mechanism to know the address of a previously deployed contracts?

[tuler]

I found this related issue