wails dev Call from terminal unable to find wails.json

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

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.

UPDATE:

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.