Truffle does not work - could not find suitable configuration file

Question

I have searched some answers here and on google as well but none of them actually apply to my case.

I tried on console and power shell to run truffle migrate but I keep getting

could not find suitable configuration file

I saw that sometimes renaming the truffle-config.js is also an option but I just don't find this file on my computer even after running

npm install --force -g truffle

Any ideas of what could that be?

Answer 1

Very noob mistake from my part.

I have actually to initialize the project before migrating it.

truffle init

after that

truffle migrate

sorry.

Answer 2

I had a similar issue. My problem was that my project (on the project root level) was missing a truffle.js file with the following contents:

module.exports = {
  networks: {
    development: {
      host: "127.0.0.1",
      port: 8545,
      network_id: "*" // Match any network id
    }
  }
};

related truffle documentation

after adding this file my desired truffle commands worked