blast command does not work after installation: requests for a blast config file

[Aishat-Akinyemi]

I am unable to run the blast command after successfully installing with npm install cudos-blast -g.

Running any blast command like blast --version or blast --help results in:

BlastError: Config file was not found! Make sure that blast.config.js exists at ~[user]/blast.config.js

[Aishat-Akinyemi]

workaround: manually creating a blast.config.js in my user root directory with this content

module.exports.config = {
  addressPrefix: 'cudos',
  rustOptimizerVersion: '0.12.6',
  gasPrice: '250acudos',

  // optional parameners
  gasLimit: 'auto',
  gasMultiplier: 'auto',
  additionalAccounts: 0,
  customAccountBalances: 1000000000000000000,
  networks: {
    testnet: 'https://sentry1.gcp-uscentral1.cudos.org:36657'
  }
}

[Aishat-Akinyemi]

I'm currently working on a video tutorial so I had to create a new WSL environment and install blast therein.

@nbaum (mentioning you since you reacted to the initial issue), I noticed that the below steps result in an error/unexpected behaviour that could reduce dev-experience:

• after running npm i cudos-blast global
• running blast --help results in this error BlastError: package.json not found.Make sure the current working directory is your Blast project's path
• afterwards I ran blast init in a directory, creating a new cudos/cosmwasm blast project. Running blast --help in this directory works

To further isolate:
-- creating an empty package.json and a blast.config.js as in the root directory (as explained in the workaround in the original issue)

Summarily: Unless you firstly run blast init , there needs to be a blast.config.js, and then a package.json file in a directory before one can run a blast command in that directory.