Just curious - I currently have a SS project that I'd like to do local development on. However, to run

npm start

I need to run

npx sst start

in the parent directory (for the

creds

file). Is there a better way to do local development with a SS project?

Hey @Aaron McCloud, sorry for the late reply. What’s your project structure? Is the parent directory the root of the repo or is the current directory the root? Also, what

creds

file are you referring to?

I set up the project using the most updated version of SS. For this to run, the root needs to have

npx sst start

running in it. The front-end is in a child folder of the root, in line with the SS guidance. Running

npm start

in the child folder, with the front-end, gives me the error:

sst-env: Cannot find the SST outputs file in [path to root folder]. Make sure "sst start" is running.

Just to clarify, does the folder structure look like this:

/
  sst.json
  frontend/

And what you saw is that if you ran

npx sst start

inside root

/

, and then try to run

npm start

inside

frontend/

, you get the

sst-env: Cannot find the SST outputs file

error.

Yes, that is correct.

Hi Aaron, when you run into this error again, can you try listing out all the files inside the root

.build

folder? The file

sst-env

is looking should be in there.

I'll look for it there. Thanks! 🙏