Unable to deploy/build node web app

[kayvear]

Bug Report

• At what date and time did you most recently experience the problem? 01/14/2022 15:20 EST

• Where did you experience the problem? E.g. Azure Web Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Container Registry, or offline use. Azure Web Apps

• If your repo is publicly available please share its URL: No, its on my local git.

• What happened? When I push my node app from local git to Azure, I get an error stating: Error: Couldn't detect a version for the platform 'nodejs' in the repo. I tried to redeploy my commit on the portal and still get the same error. My node web app is a simple express app and I am running from the project directory that has a package.json in it as well as an app.js. See directory structure below:

azure/webapp [master●] » pwd /Users/xxx/code/azure/webapp azure/webapp [master●] » lt total 136 drwxr-xr-x 5 xxxxx staff 160 Jan 13 18:12 public drwxr-xr-x 4 xxxxx staff 128 Jan 13 18:12 routes drwxr-xr-x 5 xxxxx staff 160 Jan 13 18:12 views -rw-r--r-- 1 xxxxx staff 1075 Jan 13 18:12 app.js -rw-r--r-- 1 xxxxx staff 294 Jan 13 18:12 package.json drwxr-xr-x 3 xxxxx staff 96 Jan 13 18:12 bin -rw-r--r-- 1 xxxxx staff 58533 Jan 13 18:12 package-lock.json

• What did you expect or want to happen? Deploy and build to be successful

• How can we reproduce it? a simple node webapp

• Do you have log output? Please include between the backticks:

Command: oryx build /home/site/repository -o /home/site/wwwroot --platform nodejs --platform-version 12 -i /tmp/8d9d79c2e550871 -p compress_node_modules=tar-gz --log-file /tmp/build-debug.log 
Operation performed by Microsoft Oryx, https://github.com/Microsoft/Oryx
You can report issues at https://github.com/Microsoft/Oryx/issues

Oryx Version: 0.2.20210826.1, Commit: f8651349d0c78259bb199593b526450568c2f94a, ReleaseTagName: 20210826.1

Build Operation ID: |VRYB26nMfVY=.77b591e2_
Repository Commit : 15130020ee4a4f7d64857326e0dc7168668d9a62

Detecting platforms...
Could not detect any platform in the source directory.
Error: Couldn't detect a version for the platform 'nodejs' in the repo.
Error: Couldn't detect a version for the platform 'nodejs' in the repo.\n/opt/Kudu/Scripts/starter.sh oryx build /home/site/repository -o /home/site/wwwroot --platform nodejs --platform-version 12 -i /tmp/8d9d79c2e550871 -p compress_node_modules=tar-gz --log-file /tmp/build-debug.log 

[qianz2]

@kayvear Oryx couldn't detect a supported version from the repo. I see on the oryx command you specify the version is node 12, does it match up with the version within package.json file?

[qianz2]

@kayvear Could you provide us with your app link to reproduce the case?

[simonjj]

We're closing this issue due to its age. If this is still impacting you please open a new issue and simply link back to this one.