Lesson 9 Hardhat Shorthand Installation

[atenger]

I ran into an issue setting up the hardhat shorthand installation in Lesson 9 and just wanted to share what I did in case anyone else has the same problem.

I ran yarn global add hardhat-shorthand and got the same success message as in Patrick's video:

But when I ran hh compile afterwards I got the error hh: command not found

I read this discussion, played around with adding the scripts tag in package.json but ultimately the only thing that worked was to install using NPM instead of YARN.

I dont know why, but when I installed with NPM, it started working and I can run hh compile now.

Hope this helps if anyone else runs into similar issues :)

[adityabhattad2021]

It will probably work with npm
Try:

npm install --global hardhat-shorthand

then

hh compile

[jting0499]

I tried multiple times with different ways but none of them are working.

[adityabhattad2021]

Try deleting the node_modules directory completely and running npm install again.
This should help!

[atenger]

oops, yes! That's what I ended up doing and it worked. I forgot to explicitly write that in my post. I was sharing this to hopefully help others. The only thing I still don't understand is why it worked with npm but not yarn.

[mattaereal]

You can also run yarn hardhat clean next time :)

[MarsIfeanyi]

Yes, i had similar issues with YARN but then using NPM works

npm install --global hardhat-shorthand

[engsbergp]

npm install -global worked for me too

yarn works well if I want to install a package while I'm running a node instance.

[whoopsoops]

It doesn't matter if you use npm or yarn. Because you install it globally, you should run it with sudo
sudo yarn global add hardhat-shorthand
It will prompt you to enter the su password so that it can be installed globally. I'm not sure how npm get around it for you guys