New hardhat configuration reading existing hardhat config

[taetaehoho]

gm!

I've had an issue with hardhat initialization starting from lesson 7. I will run the following commands
yarn init yarn add --dev hardhat yarn hardhat

and instead of getting the default hardhat configuration setup, I just get all the executable tasks (including deploy, etherscan/verify...etc which I've added to hardhat-config.js in other directories).

I am working out of a fresh directory.

I have tried.

1. uninstalling global node_modules.
2. rm -r current_dir and redoing the process.

But can't make it seem to work. Some alternatives I've considered are

1. uninstalling and reinstalling node

But would love to hear what other solutions there are.

[othaime-en]

Hey @taetaehoho what do you mean by default hardhat configuration setup? Do you mean this?

888    888                      888 888               888
888    888                      888 888               888
888    888                      888 888               888
8888888888  8888b.  888d888 .d88888 88888b.   8888b.  888888
888    888     "88b 888P"  d88" 888 888 "88b     "88b 888
888    888 .d888888 888    888  888 888  888 .d888888 888
888    888 888  888 888    Y88b 888 888  888 888  888 Y88b.
888    888 "Y888888 888     "Y88888 888  888 "Y888888  "Y888

👷 Welcome to Hardhat v2.10.0 👷‍

? What do you want to do? … 
❯ Create a JavaScript project
  Create a TypeScript project
  Create an empty hardhat.config.js
  Quit

[othaime-en]

If yes? then one thing about this setup, is that you only get it if you don't have a hardhat.config.js file in your directory. Once you have one, even if it is empty, you will get the other menu that is full of tasks and commands. So if you want to get the menu above, you need to make sure you don't have a hardhat.config.js file in your directory. Don't worry about the other files like node_modules

[krakxn]

^

[taetaehoho]

yes thats what i meant! but i definitely don't have a hardhat.config.js in the new directory i'm working out of. I suspected that I misplaced one somewhere globally or in a parent directory but i've confirmed that that isn't the case so not sure whats the problem.

[othaime-en]

@taetaehoho Then you probably have the hardhat.config.js somewhere.
Run yarn hardhat --verbose and see if you can find it in the path under hardhat:core:config Loading Hardhat config from <PATH>

[alymurtazamemon]

@taetaehoho I think you already have hardhat.config.js file somewhere. Run this npx hardhat --verbose, it will tell you the hardhat file location delete that and run again npx hardhat and make sure you have hardhat installed.