Lesson Error 14: Error: cannot find artifact "BasicNft"

[BrysonHall]

I was doing the Patrick Collins tutorial link and got this error Error: cannot find artifact "BasicNft" when running hh deploy.

Here is my files:

BasicNft.sol

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.8;

import "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC721/ERC721.sol";

contract BasicNft is ERC721 {
    string public constant TOKEN_URI =
        "ipfs://bafybeig37ioir76s7mg5oobetncojcm3c3hxasyd4rvid4jqhy4gkaheg4/?filename=0-PUG.json";
    uint256 private s_tokenCounter;

    constructor() ERC721("Dogie", "DOG") {
        s_tokenCounter = 0;
    }

    function mintNft() public returns (uint256) {
        _safeMint(msg.sender, s_tokenCounter);
        s_tokenCounter = s_tokenCounter + 1;
        return s_tokenCounter;
    }

    function tokenURI(uint256 tokenId) public view override returns (string memory) {
        // require(_exists(tokenId), "ERC721Metadata: URI query for nonexistent token");
        return TOKEN_URI;
    }

    function getTokenCounter() public view returns (uint256) {
        return s_tokenCounter;
    }
}

01-deploy-basic-nft

const { network } = require("hardhat")
const { developmentChains } = require("../helper-hardhat-config")
const { verify } = require("../utils/verify")

module.exports = async ({ getNamedAccounts, deployments }) => {
    const { deploy, log } = deployments
    const { deployer } = await getNamedAccounts()

    log("----------------------------------------------------")
    const args = []
    const basicNft = await deploy("BasicNft", {
        from: deployer,
        args: args,
        log: true,
        waitConfirmations: network.config.blockConfirmations || 1,
    })

    // Verify the deployment
    if (!developmentChains.includes(network.name) && process.env.ETHERSCAN_API_KEY) {
        log("Verifying...")
        await verify(basicNft.address, args)
    }
    log("---------------------------------")
}

[alymurtazamemon]

@BrysonHall remove the artifacts and cache folders and recompile the contract.

[BrysonHall]

I tried that but it unfortunately didn't work. Any other suggestions?

[alymurtazamemon]

@BrysonHall check whether you have JSON file of contract in artifacts/contracts/

[Tosinkoa]

Pls how do you solve this?, am facing same error too @BrysonHall

[Ahmed-Aghadi]

run yarn hardhat clean and then run yarn hardhat deploy.
If this doesn't work then check whether your solidity file contains exactly contract BasicNft. And also check whether after running yarn hardhat compile, is there any file named BasicNft.json inside "artifacts/contracts/" exists.

[SpeedBird789]

Hope you have solved this. I just came across the same error and got it solved too. In your 01-deploy-basic-nft file, replace const basicNft = await deploy("BasicNft", with const basicNft = await deploy("BasicNFT",
The reason I belive you were getting the error is because the contractName in your "artifacts/contracts/BasicNFT.sol/BasicNFT.json" is named as BasicNFT and not BasicNft
Hope it helps.