importing hardhat in javascript to compile solidity code

[hammersharkfish]

I want to use hardhatto compile in a script and not in bash is there any way to achieve this ?
import hardhat from "hardhat" . . . hardhat.compile(" pragma solidity ...")

[kanej]

You can run Hardhat's tasks programmatically from a script:

// ./scripts/compile.js

// Import Hardhat's runtime environment
const hre = require("hardhat");

async function main() {
  // Run the compile task
  await hre.run("compile");

  console.log("Compilation finished successfully");
}

main()
  .then(() => process.exit(0))
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error(error);
    process.exit(1);
  });

You can then run the script with:

npx hardhat run ./scripts/compile.js

[hammersharkfish]

Thank you . I will try this and get back

[hammersharkfish]

This works when compiling local hardhat project (thank you for that) but when I try to point it outside the project directory it throws
HardhatError: HH1007: The file 'some/path/outside/contracts',is treated as local but is outside the project
Here is my path of hardhat.config.cjs (of local directory)

  paths: {
    sources: 'some/path/outside/contracts',
    tests: ' some/path/outside/tests',
    cache: 'some/path/outside/cache',
    artifacts: 'some/path/outside/artifacts',
  }

My understanding is paths is used to find sources from any directory so why this error .