Npx hardhat could not determine executable to run

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I am trying to follow this guide and I am struggling running hardhat. After following the commands in the article:

mkdir hardhat-tutorial
cd hardhat-tutorial
npm init --yes
npm install --save-dev hardhat
npx hardhat

I get an error stating npm ERR! could not determine executable to run. The hardhat tool can be run by navigating to the npm_modules/hardhat directory however this seems to be interfering with the commands later in the tutorial due to the tool being in a different directory to the files it is being used on.

I'm not sure if I have fundamentally misunderstood how hardhat is supposed to work. Are you supposed to install it in each project and have your project directory be within npm_modules/hardhat or have I messed up the install/configuartion?

There appears to have already been a question covering this issue but sadly it was deleted and I have not managed to find another solution.

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4 Answers

I had the same issue then it worked for me by specifying the latest version of hardhat during the install, eg.:

npm install --save-dev "hardhat@^2.8.0"

With this no need to go into the node_modules/hardhat folder in order to run npx hardhat

user_177628590

To address all issues (including breaking changes), run:

npm audit fix --force

Run npm audit for details.

dee-MacBook-Pro-2 polygon-hardhat % npm audit fix --force
npm WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
npm WARN audit Updating hardhat to 0.0.7,which is a SemVer major change.
npm WARN deprecated mkdirp@0.3.5: Legacy versions of mkdirp are no longer supported. Please update to mkdirp 1.x. (Note that the API surface has changed to use Promises in 1.x.)

added 4 packages, removed 333 packages, changed 5 packages, and audited 10 packages in 4s

found 0 vulnerabilities
dee@Dee-MacBook-Pro-2 polygon-hardhat % npx hardhat
npm ERR! could not determine executable to run

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/dee/.npm/_logs/2022-02-13T16_54_02_999Z-debug-0.log
dee@Dee-MacBook-Pro-2 polygon-hardhat %
user_104019520

The best thing to do is create a new hardhat project, because here and there you will get stuck. Faced the same problem

user_95939440

This is happening because you are not using yarn try this

mkdir Smart-contracts
cd Smart-contracts
npm init
yarn add --dev hardhat

then type npx hardhat and there will be no problem.

user_197431820
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