If anyone from Netsuite sees this please take a look at this output and help me fix the problem:

>>> Executing /Users/fkrauthan/WebstormProjects/fispan/netsuite/sdf/sdfcli deploy -p /Users/fkrauthan/WebstormProjects/fispan/netsuite/dist -v
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] 
[INFO] ------------------------< com.netsuite:sdf-cli >------------------------
[INFO] Building SDF CLI 2018.1.1
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- exec-maven-plugin:1.5.0:java (default-cli) @ sdf-cli ---
SuiteCloud Development Framework CLI (com.netsuite.ide.core_2018.1.1)
Using token based authentication.
No errors found.
Preview "/Users/fkrauthan/WebstormProjects/fispan/netsuite/dist".
*** ERROR ***

Missing required file patch.xml.