Lesson: 6 - Did not get 4 options (create Javascript project) on running yarn hardhat.

[ManuWeb3]

Hi everyone,

I'm not getting any of the 4 options, shown below, upon running the folllowing command:

yarn hardhat

I know there have been changes in these options after 2.10.0 version but I am not getting these when I ran the above command in project folder.

Surprisingly, I did get these 4 options earlier when in Lesson 5, my Ganache was not behaving the way it should and I decided to proceed with Hardhat (as per chronological updates - option#4) and I was able to create an empty hardhat.config.js back then

Not sure what went wrong now.

Below is what I actually get:

I tried to proceed ahead, without getting these options, by manually typing the command (shown below) to add all --devDependencies that otherwise automatically pop-up on the terminal, to create the Boilerplate project but the outcome was that all dependencies got installed (saw package.json) but boilerplate directory structure did not get created.

Any help pelase?? Until, this gets fixed, I can't proceed.

The course is literally the 8th wonder on the planet, just that whenever some software/tool installation gets stuck, it's a pain as it's really hard to bear the obstruction in the otherwise awesome flow.

Anyway, thanks everyrone.

Manu

[alymurtazamemon]

@ManuWeb3 remove "main": "index.js"

[ManuWeb3]

Hi ali, thanks for checking.

I deleted this from package.json now and again ran "yarn hardhat" but still the same situation.

[alymurtazamemon]

@ManuWeb3 try npx hardhat --verbose, it will show you the hardhat-config.js file located somewhere else, delete that and run this again.

[ManuWeb3]

Hi Ali,

Yes, it worked now. When I ran with --verbose option, it showed config file placed in ethers-simple-storage-fcc (Lesson 5) folder.

Upon deletion and re-running, it worked and I have the menu now.

Thanks buddy for your time. Could not have waited further to continue with the course :)

[paulcoffee85]

@ManuWeb3 try npx hardhat --verbose, it will show you the hardhat-config.js file located somewhere else, delete that and run this again.

Thank you. This helped a lot.

[krakxn]

I could be wrong here but I believe it is some issue w/ Hardhat when you installed it.

• Try making a completely new and seperate directory.
• Then, in the terminal: yarn add hardhat
• This should most likely lead to that menu prompt, which you are referring to.
• And yarn hardhat is not concerned with that menu; that menu is for installation purposes. Whereas yarn hardhat is the menu which shows all the available tasks and commands the Hardhat package offers.

Hope this helps.

[ManuWeb3]

Hey krakxn,

Thanks for your time to look into the issue.

The second reply from Ali resolved my issue.

I believe yarn hardhat should show that startup menu with 4 options as also showed by Patrick at 08.26.29.

However, it's working fine now.

[ManuWeb3]

Hey, I just reached at 08.29.44 where Patrick told that once we have set up all the packages and dependencies by running "yarn hardhat" and by choosing menu option -1: "Create JS project" at the start, after this whenever we run the same command again, it will output the list of the global options and tasks, as you mentioned.