Bug: Litestar instance or factory not found

[glickums]

Hi, every time I try to run litestar from vscode I get a "Could not find Litestar instance or factory"

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[JacobCoffee]

Can you provide an MCVE of your project structure? You can see how Litestar discovers things in https://docs.litestar.dev/latest/usage/cli.html#autodiscovery, and you error indicates those criteria are not met.

If it is not in your current directory, or discoverable otherwise as listed in the documentation, you have to provide the path via something like:

litestar --app-dir "/Users/jacob/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/PyCharm2023.3/scratches/" run

or

litestar --app module.path.to.examples.basic:app run