I am using a copy of the Wails + Svelte hello world app and I am using it to do a Svelte tutorial.

(Tutorial Link) /tutorial/svelte/nested-components

Up until I reached this particular tutorial topic, everything was fine when I ran "wails dev" or "wails build" from inside the project folder.

Then I tried to make a component in the same directory as my App.svelte file and then it a seemingly unrelated error occurred. I made a Nested.svelte component as in the tutorial. The two mentioned .svelte files are in this directory: ...\1-hello_world\frontend\src

I received this message in the terminal after entering "wails dev". ...\1-hello_world\wails.json: The system cannot find the file specified.

However, my wails.json file is here ...\1-hello_world\frontend\wails.json Is there any way to tell wails where to look for the JSON file? Did my creation of the component cause a bug, or is the subsequent fail of wails dev a coincidence?

I am working on a Windows laptop.

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UPDATE

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I get a different message in the terminal depending on where I call "wails dev". If I call it from inside the /frontend folder, I get this message in the terminal:

Executing: go mod tidy
  • Generating bindings: 
  ERROR   
          no Go files in ...\1-hello_world\frontend

          exit status 1

If I call "wails dev" from the ...\1-hello_world folder, I get the following:

...\1-hello_world\wails.json: The system cannot find the file specified.

These are the contents of the App.svelte file:

<script lang="ts">
  import Nested from "./Nested.svelte";
  let src = "./src/assets/images/bobby.png";
  const title = "Mr.";
  const height = "small";
</script>

<h3>Title of App - Hello Again {title.toUpperCase()} World</h3>

<p>Paragraph styling is scoped.</p>

<Nested />

<style>
  p {
    color: goldenrod;
    font-family: "Comic Sans MS", cursive;
    font-size: 2em;
  }
</style>

These are the contents of the Nested.svelte file.

<script lang="ts">
</script>

<p>This is the nested paragraph.</p>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.