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app build error - resolving node version error.

Posted on December 6, 2022

I’m writing this question third time. First two after pressing Post the Question just dissappeared :(.

I’m trying to deploy app from github, and its build fails. The build log is as follows:

[2022-12-05 11:33:05] ╭──────────── git repo clone ───────────╼
[2022-12-05 11:33:05] │  › fetching app source code
[2022-12-05 11:33:05] │ => Selecting branch "master"
[2022-12-05 11:33:06] │ => Checking out commit "079ec218fe19fe3c2f73cce87cf61776e1f50dfa"
[2022-12-05 11:33:06] │ 
[2022-12-05 11:33:06] │  ✔ cloned repo to /workspace
[2022-12-05 11:33:07] ╰────────────────────────────────────────╼
[2022-12-05 11:33:07] 
[2022-12-05 11:33:07]  › configuring build-time app environment variables:
[2022-12-05 11:33:07]      KBOARDS_APP_KEY LOCAL_BASE_URL
[2022-12-05 11:33:07] 
[2022-12-05 11:33:07]  › configuring custom build command to be run at the end of the build:
[2022-12-05 11:33:07]    │ npm run build
[2022-12-05 11:33:07] 
[2022-12-05 11:33:07] ╭──────────── buildpack detection ───────────╼
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] │ Detected the following buildpacks suitable to build your app:
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] │ 
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] │    heroku/nodejs-engine   v0.5.1  
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] │    digitalocean/node      v0.3.4  (Node.js)
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] │    digitalocean/procfile  v0.0.3  (Procfile)
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] │    digitalocean/custom    v0.1.1  (Custom Build Command)
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] │ 
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] │ For documentation on the buildpacks used to build your app, please see:
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] │ 
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] │    Node.js  v0.3.4  https://do.co/apps-buildpack-node
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────╼
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] 
[2022-12-05 11:33:08] ╭──────────── app build ───────────╼
[2022-12-05 11:33:09] │ ---> Node.js Buildpack
[2022-12-05 11:33:09] │ ---> Installing toolbox
[2022-12-05 11:33:09] │ ---> - jq
[2022-12-05 11:33:09] │ ---> - yj
[2022-12-05 11:33:09] │ ---> Getting Node version
[2022-12-05 11:33:09] │ ---> Resolving Node version
[2022-12-05 11:33:10] │ ERROR: failed to build: exit status 1
[2022-12-05 11:33:11] │ 
[2022-12-05 11:33:11] │ 
[2022-12-05 11:33:11] │ For documentation on the buildpacks used to build your app, please see:
[2022-12-05 11:33:11] │ 
[2022-12-05 11:33:11] │    Node.js  v0.3.4  https://do.co/apps-buildpack-node
[2022-12-05 11:33:11] │ 
[2022-12-05 11:33:11] │  ✘ build failed

In the package.json I have following declarations:

  "version":"0.0.0",
  "engines": {
    "node": "^18.6.0",
    "npm": "^8.14.0"
  },

DigitalOcean app topology is following:

databases:
- engine: PG
  name: kbdb
  num_nodes: 1
  size: professional-xs
  version: "12"
envs:
- key: LOCAL_BASE_URL
  scope: RUN_AND_BUILD_TIME
  value: ${APP_URL}
name: kboards-staging
region: fra
services:
- build_command: npm run build
  environment_slug: node-js
  envs:
  - key: DATABASE_URL
    scope: RUN_TIME
    value: ${kbdb.DATABASE_URL}
  github:
    branch: master
    repo: zpiecuch81/kBoards
  http_port: 8080
  instance_count: 1
  instance_size_slug: professional-s
  name: kboards
  routes:
  - path: /
  run_command: npm start
  source_dir: /

The description ERROR: failed to build: exit status 1 doesn’t help me much. I don’t know wy it doesn’t work. It works when run locally and also run when deployed to Heroku server. Any hint what can be the source of this?



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Hi there,

It looks like a problem with the Node.js version that you are trying to use, I could suggest trying with the following instead:

{
  "engines": {
    "node": "18.x"
  }
}

Let me know how it goes!

If this still fails, is your project open-source? If so can you share a link here so I could try the deployment process on my end for further troubleshooting?

As a side note, no worries about the duplicate questions, I will go ahead and delist them.

Best,

Bobby

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