hardhat.config.js file setup deploys complete vscode explorer directory paths in terminal output.

[paulcoffee85]

Why is it that when I' add the line below 'defaultNetwork: 'hardhat', After "yarn hardhat deploy", the terminal outputs the errors in additio to 100s of line of directory paths as seen below. WTF is goin on here ?

networks: { mainnet_fork: { url: 'http://127.0.0.1:8545', chainId: 1, forking: { url: ALCHEMY_MAINNET_RPC_URL, } },

OUTPUT
paulc@darkcocoacoffee MINGW64 ~/hardhat-fund-me-fcc
$ yarn hardhat deploy
yarn run v1.22.19
$ C:\Users\paulc\hardhat-fund-me-fcc\node_modules.bin\hardhat deploy
{
ACLOCAL_PATH: 'C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\share\aclocal;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\share\aclocal',
ALLUSERSPROFILE: 'C:\ProgramData',
APPDATA: 'C:\Users\paulc\AppData\Roaming',
Chocolatey: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\',
ChocolateyInstall: 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey',
ChocolateyLastPathUpdate: '133191765971659991',
CHROME_CRASHPAD_PIPE_NAME: '\\.\pipe\LOCAL\crashpad_19212_MWKZLOQBJDOSLCYF',
COLORTERM: 'truecolor',
COMMONPROGRAMFILES: 'C:\Program Files\Common Files',
'CommonProgramFiles(x86)': 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files',
CommonProgramW6432: 'C:\Program Files\Common Files',
COMPUTERNAME: 'DARKCOCOACOFFEE',
COMSPEC: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe',
CONFIG_SITE: 'C:/Program Files/Git/etc/config.site',
DISPLAY: 'needs-to-be-defined',
DriverData: 'C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\DriverData',

..... 100 lines later

VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_MAIN: 'c:\Users\paulc\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\extensions\git\dist\askpass-main.js',
VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_NODE: 'C:\Users\paulc\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe',
VSCODE_GIT_IPC_HANDLE: '\\.\pipe\vscode-git-ca63495ab1-sock',
WINDIR: 'C:\WINDOWS',
YARN_WRAP_OUTPUT: 'false'
}
Error HH8: There's one or more errors in your config file:

• Invalid value undefined for HardhatConfig.networks.defaultNetwork.url - Expected a value of type string.
• Invalid value undefined for HardhatConfig.networks.networks.url - Expected a value of type string.

To learn more about Hardhat's configuration, please go to https://hardhat.org/config/

For more info go to https://hardhat.org/HH8 or run Hardhat with --show-stack-traces
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

[Koowah]

Hi @paulcoffee85,
Can you show your whole hardhat config ?

[paulcoffee85]

Hi @paulcoffee85, Can you show your whole hardhat config ?

Thanks anyway, @alymurtazamemon had it right.
#4780 (comment)

[alymurtazamemon]

@paulcoffee85 It looks like the hardhat.config.js file is not able to read env file variables. Make sure to console log env variable at the start of the hardhat config file to verify their values before proceeding further.

[paulcoffee85]

@paulcoffee85 It looks like the hardhat.config.js file is not able to read env file variables. Make sure to console log env variable at the start of the hardhat config file to verify their values before proceeding further.

Yes Thank you. Everythings working now.
When I test dotenv, is it ...

1 ) console.log(require("dotenv").config())

#2 ) (in terminal) -->$ yarn hardhat deploy ? or is there anothe method to test it ?

[alymurtazamemon]

@paulcoffee85 Is it resolved or are you asking?

[paulcoffee85]

@paulcoffee85 Is it resolved or are you asking?

It resolved after I fixed .env and hardhat.config. But when testing dotenv { console.log(require("dotenv").config()) } I just need to run command --> yarn hardhat deploy ?

[alymurtazamemon]

@paulcoffee85 Yes, you can run any hardhat command and it will first run the hardhat config file. But I was not saying to console log this require("dotenv").config() instead any variable which you want to test like GOERLI_RPC_URL, etc.

[paulcoffee85]

Ok, i understand. Thank you very much @alymurtazamemon