Cannot Read properties of undefined(reading 'provider')

[Twonarly1]

I was having issues with this error while running through the tutorial and wanted to share a solution.

Problem:
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'provider') at getBalance (/coffee-contracts/scripts/buy-coffee.js:5:44).

Solution
//buy-coffee.js

const { ethers } = require("hardhat")
const hre = require("hardhat")

// Returns the Ether balance of a given address.
async function getBalance(address) {
    const balanceBigInt = await ethers.provider.getBalance(address)
    return hre.ethers.utils.formatEther(balanceBigInt)
}

[jameslimjy]

thanks for the solution!