Web3: My deployment gets stuck over Test Eth Network. [Error: Failed to check for transaction receipt: with contract.deploy()] - deployment

Question

I trying to deploy my contract using node. I am following a youtube tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oaJynB0nKc&list=PLzb46hGUzitDd39YzB1YvZqeIXXtmBrHX&index=26.
I'm following everything according to this tutorial but every time I run "node deploy.js", I either get timeout error: (Note I am not using any truffle framework yet.)
process["on"]("unhandledRejection", function (reason) { throw reason; });
^
Error: Failed to check for transaction receipt:
{}
at Object._fireError (C:\Users\schit\Desktop\Solidity Dapp\inbox\node_modules\web3-utils\lib\index.js:49:17)
at C:\Users\schit\Desktop\Solidity Dapp\inbox\node_modules\web3-core-method\lib\index.js:246:23
My code is as follows:
const HDWalletProvider = require('#truffle/hdwallet-provider');
const Web3 = require('web3');
const interface = require('./compile.js');
let abi = interface.abi;
let bytecode = interface.bytecode;
var mnemonic = '12-word mnemonic';
var endpoint = 'https://ropsten.infura.io/v3/<key>';
const provider = new HDWalletProvider({
mnemonic: {
phrase: mnemonic
},
providerOrUrl: endpoint
});
console.log('********DEBUG*LOG**********2');
const options = {
transactionConfirmationBlocks: 1
};
const web3 = new Web3(provider, null, options);
console.log('********DEBUG*LOG**********3')
const deploy = async () => {
const accounts = await web3.eth.getAccounts();
var balance = await web3.eth.getBalance(accounts[0]);
console.log('Account balance: ', web3.utils.fromWei(balance, "ether"));
console.log('Attempting to deploy from account', accounts[0]);
var contract = new web3.eth.Contract(abi);
**const result = await contract
.deploy({data: '0x' + bytecode, arguments: ['Hi there!']})
.send({from: accounts[0], gas: '1000000'})
.on ('error', console.error)
.on ('transactionHash', console.log)
.on ('receipt', console.log);**
console.log('Contract deployed to', result.options.address);
};
deploy();