Error when running deploy.js for hardhat-simple-storage-fcc (lesson 6)

[sasiravula]

Hi Patrick, team,

When running the deploy.js file for hardhat (hardhat-simple-storage-fcc) I get this error:

yarn hardhat run scripts/deploy.js
yarn run v1.22.19
$ /home/sasiunix/hh-fcc/hardhat-simple-storage-fcc/node_modules/.bin/hardhat run scripts/deploy.js
Error: invalid bytecode (argument="bytecode", value=undefined, code=INVALID_ARGUMENT, version=contracts/5.7.0)
at Logger.makeError (/home/sasiunix/hh-fcc/hardhat-simple-storage-fcc/node_modules/@ethersproject/logger/src.ts/index.ts:269:28)
at Logger.throwError (/home/sasiunix/hh-fcc/hardhat-simple-storage-fcc/node_modules/@ethersproject/logger/src.ts/index.ts:281:20)
at Logger.throwArgumentError (/home/sasiunix/hh-fcc/hardhat-simple-storage-fcc/node_modules/@ethersproject/logger/src.ts/index.ts:285:21)
at Proxy.ContractFactory (/home/sasiunix/hh-fcc/hardhat-simple-storage-fcc/node_modules/@ethersproject/contracts/src.ts/index.ts:1172:20)
at main (/home/sasiunix/hh-fcc/hardhat-simple-storage-fcc/scripts/deploy.js:6:45)
at Object. (/home/sasiunix/hh-fcc/hardhat-simple-storage-fcc/scripts/deploy.js:15:1)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1119:14)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1173:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:997:32)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:838:12) {
reason: 'invalid bytecode',
code: 'INVALID_ARGUMENT',
argument: 'bytecode',
value: undefined
}
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

It should not be using 'ts' files no? I am running the JavaScript version as outlined in our tutorial . (FYI that I never managed to run the file successfully yet)

Thanks for any assistance!
Sasi

[sasiravula]

Oh never mind. I found the problem. I used "contractFactory" instead of "getcontractFactory". Thanks

[Karakter99]

This one worked on me also. I was trying to find a solution and this is good news for me. thanks very much