Lesson 5 Error - Unable to deploy SimpleStorage contract

[siddhantvats05]

const ethers = require("ethers");
const fs = require("fs-extra");

async function main(){
    //http://172.25.32.1:7545
    //http://0.0.0.0:7545
    const provider = new ethers.providers.JsonRpcProvider("http://172.25.32.1:7545");
    const wallet = new ethers.Wallet("6bb608dc72b6d5d26949fc53980f6acedc19916463a2891cf754411f6bdae77a",provider);
    const abi = fs.readFileSync("./SimpleStorage_sol_SimpleStorage.abi","utf8");
    const binary = fs.readFileSync("./SimpleStorage_sol_SimpleStorage.bin","utf8");
    const contractFactory = ethers.ContractFactory(abi,binary,wallet);
    console.log("Deploying,please wait...");
    const contract = await contractFactory.deploy();
    console.log(contract);
}

main()
    .then(() => process.exit(0))
    .catch((error) => {
        console.error(error)
        process.exit(1)
    });

I am unable to deploy the Simple-Storage contract, when i write deploy.js in the terminal I get the following error:

TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'constructor')
    at getStatic (/home/sid/blockchain/Simple-Storage/node_modules/@ethersproject/properties/lib/index.js:60:53)
    at Object.ContractFactory (/home/sid/blockchain/Simple-Storage/node_modules/@ethersproject/contracts/lib/index.js:1089:88)
    at main (/home/sid/blockchain/Simple-Storage/deploy.js:11:36)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/sid/blockchain/Simple-Storage/deploy.js:17:1)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1103:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1157:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:77:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47

Can somebody please tell me what to do?

[mattjaf]

isn't it suppose to be const contractFactory = new ethers.ContractFactory(abi, binary, wallet)

[0xSanyam]

@siddhantvats05 when declaring contractFactory you have to use the 'new' keyword too, new Keyword in Solidity

const contractFactory = new ethers.ContractFactory(abi, binary, wallet);