I had deployed my app earlier and it’s using heroku/nodejs-engine v1.5.6 digitalocean/nodev0.4.0 (Node.js) digitalocean/procfile v0.0.4 (Procfile) digitalocean/custom v0.1.2 (Custom Build Command) but now when I’m deploying the same app it’s using, digitalocean/nodejs-appdetect v0.0.2 heroku/nodejs v0.260.4 (Node.js) digitalocean/procfile v0.0.4 (Procfile) digitalocean/custom v0.1.2 (Custom Build Command) and the second one is running into error while the first one is not. help needed to understand where can I specify the build to be done using the first method.

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How to specify which buildpack to use for a react app while deploying it as a static website in digitalocean app platform ?

Posted on October 23, 2024

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By UltaAc

I had deployed my app earlier and it’s using

heroku/nodejs-engine v1.5.6
digitalocean/nodev0.4.0 (Node.js)
digitalocean/procfile v0.0.4 (Procfile)
digitalocean/custom v0.1.2 (Custom Build Command)

but now when I’m deploying the same app it’s using,

digitalocean/nodejs-appdetect v0.0.2
heroku/nodejs v0.260.4 (Node.js)
digitalocean/procfile v0.0.4 (Procfile)
digitalocean/custom v0.1.2 (Custom Build Command)

and the second one is running into error while the first one is not.

help needed to understand where can I specify the build to be done using the first method.

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2ecb11fb55844788b00e618a2d2359

October 24, 2024

We have the same problem. Today we try to deploy the same app that we uploaded a while ago with all the configuration exactly the same and it gives us an error code 127 in the build phase. We noticed that the same thing that they mention here happened with the versions in our case.

Bobby Iliev

October 27, 2024

Hey!

I just tried deploying a demo React app on DigitalOcean App Platform, and it used the same build details you mentioned in the second setup, with digitalocean/nodejs-appdetect v0.0.2 and heroku/nodejs v0.260.4. Everything worked fine with this configuration.

Here’s the demo app I used, if you’d like to try it as a reference: React Demo App on GitHub.

Here’s an image showing the exact build versions used in my deployment:

Build Versions

Could you share more details about the specific error you’re getting? Or if your React project is open source, feel free to share the link to the project here and I will be happy to try and reproduce this on my end and further investigate!

- Bobby