I recently upgraded our webpart project from SPFX 1.12 to 1.19 Node to Version 18 and Gulp to version 5. I know - big changes. The build is fine no errors or issues but no files are created.
Because this upgrade included the tsLint depreciation I did remove the tsLint file but other than that no major changes except to PNPJS for the upgrade to PNPJS 4.0.
After doing a Build --ship and/or Bundle --ship (which are both successful even with debugging) I run the gulp package --ship and get the error no manifest files can be found at manifest/release. The files used to be stored at sharepoint/solution and I note that a gulp clean doesn't clear that folder anymore. If I manually create a manifest/release folder gulp clean will remove it, but gulp build --ship still won't populate it.
I do have a zippedPackage: solution/solution name defined in my package-solution.json I tried updating that to manifest/release/solution name and release/solution name but nothing works. Also noted when I launch Gulp Serve although the Gulp Server is running it tells me it can't launch the webparts to ensure the server is running so pretty sure it's not creating the files to do this either. Any ideas?
--verboseargument?