can not find artifact "OurToken"

[AlexK020908]

I am trying to deploy the OurToken contract by myself, but whenever I try to deploy it the following error comes up
can not find artifact "OurToken"

I think the problem is that my program does not create an artifact folder when I run
yarn hardhat compile

I have installed the dependencies correctly

does anyone know the issue?

deploy file :

const { network } = require("hardhat");
const { networkConfig } = require("../helper-hardhat-config");
const { verify } = require("../utils/verify");
const { ethers } = require("hardhat");

module.exports = async function ({ deployments, getNamedAccounts }) {
  const { deployer } = await getNamedAccounts();
  const { deploy } = deployments;
  const chainId = network.config.chainId;
  const args = [networkConfig[chainId]["initialSupply"]];
  const token = await deploy("OurToken", {
    from: deployer,
    args: args,
    log: true,
    waitConfirmations: network.config.blockConfirmations || 1,
  });

  if (chainId != 31337 && process.env.ETH_API_KEY) {
    //verify
    await verify(token.address, args);
  }

  log("====================================");
};

module.exports.tags = ["all", "token"];

ourToken:

//SPDX-License-Identifier:MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.7
//we are going to import openzeppling into our project with 
// yarn add --dev @openzeppelin/contracts
//then we improt it 
import "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol";

contract OurToken is ERC20 {
    //note : since solidity doesn't do decimals very well --> 50 means 50 wei
    //initla supply 50e18--> since default is 18 in the contract 
  constructor(uint256 initialSupply) ERC20("OurToken", "OT") {
    _mint(msg.sender, initialSupply);  //this functions allows us to create tokens 
    //first paramter --> is the person that owns all the tokens to start 
  }
}

link to repo is below
https://github.com/AlexK020908/ERC-20-TOKEN

[krakxn]

• Uninstall node_modules, cache and artifacts folders.

• Now, copy the repo's package.json and replace your package.json with it.

• Finally, do yarn install and then yarn hardhat compile.

Let me know if this helps

[AlexK020908]

I did that and it did not work

[krakxn]

Try it with npm too.

@alymurtazamemon You should look at this.

[alymurtazamemon]

@AlexK020908 contracts folder name was wrong and semi-colon was missing after pragma statement in OurToken contract, I have compiled it going to push to your repo check that.

[alymurtazamemon]

@AlexK020908 And you do not need to give solidity: "^0.8.7", greater than sign here just solidity: "0.8.7", the lower level version specified will work for all above levels.