Hi guys, I've just started using SST and have run into some trouble following the Quick Start steps shown on Github. When I try to run npx sst start it just prints out the aws-cdk help notes.

PS D:\Projects\Mafia\my-sst-app> npx sst start
Using stage: dev
Preparing your SST app

=======================
 Deploying debug stack
=======================

Usage: cdk -a <cdk-app> COMMAND

Commands:
  cdk.js list [STACKS..]             Lists all stacks in the app   [aliases: ls]
  ... more of the same
  ... more of the same
If your app has a single stack, there is no need to specify the stack name

If one of cdk.json or ~/.cdk.json exists, options specified there will be used
as defaults. Settings in cdk.json take precedence.

There was an error synthesizing your app.
PS D:\Projects\Mafia\my-sst-app>

Best guess is that

npx sst start

isn't providing any commands when calling

cdk

. I'd appreciate any assistance with this because it's got me pretty confused 😄 Cheers

Are you sure you are in the right folder? Perhaps check that you have the following within D\Projects\Mafia\my sst app

src
stacks
sst.json
package.json
.env

I've done the exact same steps on another machine just now and it's working properly.

Hey @Jackson Bowe can you share ur package.json?

package.json looks like this

{
  "name": "my-sst-app",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "test": "sst test",
    "start": "sst start",
    "build": "sst build",
    "deploy": "sst deploy",
    "remove": "sst remove"
  },
  "eslintConfig": {
    "extends": [
      "serverless-stack"
    ]
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@serverless-stack/cli": "0.69.0",
    "@serverless-stack/resources": "0.69.0",
    "aws-cdk-lib": "2.15.0"
  }
}

Command I ran was

npx create-serverless-stack@latest my-sst-app

oh hmm.. is that random laptop running Windows as well?

@Frank howdy, finally got a chance to test it today and the issue is fixed. You're a legend ❤️. Out of curiosity, what was the windows issue that you fixed?

@Jackson Bowe recently SST updated from AWS CDK v2.7.0 to v2.15.0. And CDK made a change to their binary file and this no longer works on Windows:

./bin/cdk

Instead we had to invoke it like this

node bin/cdk

Linux wasn’t affected 😔

Yeah that's really strange though because it worked perfectly on my other windows machine. Anyway, it's working now (currently using 🙂 ) so I won't complain 😄