Installing Laravel on App Platform

I am trying to install a fresh version of Laravel on DO’s App Platform.

1. Created a Fresh Project Locally
2. Pushed the Code to Git Repo
3. Connect Git Repo with App Platform
4. Deployed

However, the build is failing.

I am new to laravel, but why is there a dependency on node here?

dotest | 09:27:27 => Building app
dotest | 09:27:27 
dotest | 09:27:27 ---> Node.js Buildpack
dotest | 09:27:27 ---> Installing toolbox
dotest | 09:27:27 ---> - jq
dotest | 09:27:29 ---> - yj
dotest | 09:27:31 ---> Getting Node version
dotest | 09:27:31 ---> Resolving Node version
dotest | 09:27:36 ---> Downloading and extracting Node v12.21.0
dotest | 09:27:54 ---> Parsing package.json
dotest | 09:27:56 ---> No file to start server
dotest | 09:27:56 ---> either use 'docker run' to start container or add index.js or server.js
dotest | 09:27:56 Installing node_modules using npm (from package-lock.json)
dotest | 09:27:59 npm ERR! cipm can only install packages with an existing package-lock.json or npm-shrinkwrap.json with lockfileVersion >= 1. Run an install with npm@5 or later to generate it, then try again.
dotest | 09:27:59 
dotest | 09:27:59 npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
dotest | 09:27:59 npm ERR!     /home/apps/.npm/_logs/2021-03-21T03_57_59_068Z-debug.log
dotest | 09:27:59 unable to invoke layer creator
dotest | 09:27:59 installing node_modules: exit status 1
dotest | 09:27:59 ERROR: failed to build: exit status 1
dotest | 09:27:59  ! Build failed (145)