Issue with setting up Hardhat on Mac:

[paulgs9988]

I followed the setup for hardhat last night and continually ran into the following problem (please note that I manually changed my name to "user" in the file paths below so you can ignore that as being any issue):

yarn run v1.22.19
$ /Users/user/hardhhat-simple-storage/node_modules/.bin/hardhat run scripts/deploy.js
You have both ethereum-waffle and @nomicfoundation/hardhat-chai-matchers installed. They don't work correctly together, so please make sure you only use one.

We recommend you migrate to @nomicfoundation/hardhat-chai-matchers. Learn how to do it here: https://hardhat.org/migrate-from-waffle
You have both ethereum-waffle and @nomicfoundation/hardhat-chai-matchers installed. They don't work correctly together, so please make sure you only use one.

We recommend you migrate to @nomicfoundation/hardhat-chai-matchers. Learn how to do it here: https://hardhat.org/migrate-from-waffle
HardhatError: HH700: Artifact for contract "SimpleStorage" not found. 
    at Artifacts._handleWrongArtifactForContractName (/Users/user/hardhhat-simple-storage/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/artifacts.ts:478:11)
    at Artifacts._getArtifactPathFromFiles (/Users/user/hardhhat-simple-storage/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/artifacts.ts:593:19)
    at Artifacts._getArtifactPath (/Users/user/hardhhat-simple-storage/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/artifacts.ts:275:17)
    at Artifacts.readArtifact (/Users/user/hardhhat-simple-storage/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/artifacts.ts:58:26)
    at getContractFactory (/Users/user/hardhhat-simple-storage/node_modules/@nomiclabs/hardhat-ethers/src/internal/helpers.ts:99:22)
    at main (/Users/user/hardhhat-simple-storage/scripts/deploy.js:6:32)
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

This was after doing some trouble shooting, and I have already tried deleting my artifacts file and recompiling. I was initially getting an error that @nomicfoundation/hardhat-chai-matchers or something similar was not installed so I manually installed it with yarn and now I get the above error.

Anyway, I am now starting over from scratch to see if maybe I can get things setup properly and am documenting some differences in my setup from the tutorials:

1. First, when I run "yarn hardhat", I have no option to "Create a basic sample project", so I am instead choosing "Create a Javascript project"

2. When I complete the Javascript setup, my package.json only contains the following:

{
  "name": "hardhattake2",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "license": "MIT"
}

So I remember on my initial run through, I manually typed out the "devDependencies" configuration to match what is in the tutorial. I am guessing that this may be one source of the issue; however, I do have a node_modules directory that seems to have all of these modules present.

3. Instead of "Greeter.sol" in my contracts directory, I have a project called Lock.sol (I can include the code for this if it'd be helpful). The solidity version for Lock.sol is ^0.8.9

4. My node_modules has a lot in it, but it isn't exactly like the one in the tutorial. For example, mine does not have @ensdomains, @ethereum-waffle (I realize this second one is probably an issue and am wondering if I should manually install some dependency for that?)

I'm not sure if there is another way I should proceed from here. I can continue to set up and document any other discrepancies in how I set up from the code directly, but the two above are the main ones I remember in my first failed setup.

[paulgs9988]

UPDATE

So I have narrowed it down that the issue might have something to do with not having the package: @nomicfoundation/hardhat-waffle which I'm having difficulty installing and I get multiple errors when I try. Perhaps someone may have some advice regarding this? I get the following when I try to install:

npm WARN deprecated ganache-core@2.13.2: ganache-core is now ganache; visit https://trfl.io/g7 for details
npm WARN deprecated ganache-core@2.13.2: ganache-core is now ganache; visit https://trfl.io/g7 for details
npm WARN deprecated testrpc@0.0.1: testrpc has been renamed to ganache-cli, please use this package from now on.
npm WARN deprecated @ensdomains/resolver@0.2.4: Please use @ensdomains/ens-contracts
npm WARN deprecated @ensdomains/ens@0.4.5: Please use @ensdomains/ens-contracts
npm WARN deprecated querystring@0.2.0: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
npm ERR! code ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE
npm ERR! The "from" argument must be of type string. Received undefined

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

[BredKrumz]

Hey! Make sure your test-deploy.js file is in the "test" folder and then try running your code. I hope this helps.