Moving from nixpack to railpack. Configured railpack.json. Package.json not found?

[ioo52987]

Hi!

deployment id: 723c1e90-1b09-4cd6-8749-5a5094926203

Moving from nixpack to railpack. I configured railpack.json because I need to omit some conflicting dependency with --legacy-peer-deps, but now I am getting an error that package.json not found?

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.railpack.com",
  "steps": {
    "install": {
      "commands": ["npm install --legacy-peer-deps"]
    },
    "build": {
      "inputs": [{ "step": "install" }],
      "commands": ["...", "./my-custom-build.sh"]
    }
  },
  "deploy": {
    "startCommand": "node dist/index.js"
  }
}

I set RAILPACK_NODE_VERSION=24.5.0

I'm stuck. What am I missing?

The project is hooked up to my GitHub. I just checked, package.json is in the root. When using Nixpack I didn't need to specify the root directory, but I set it for railpack as '/' and tried a deploy. It failed. It also fails when I don't set the root. idk

[iloveitaly]

@ioo52987 Sorry you are running into trouble here!

Would it be possible in your case to set legacy-peer-deps=true in your .nvmrc? I can help with the railpack.json, but it's going to be easier (and more future proof) if you can avoid using it.

[ioo52987]

@iloveitaly I will give that a go!

It's going to be a day or so before I can circle back to it. I'll keep you posted here.
In the next release or so, the plan is to try to remove legacy-peer-deps=true.

Thanks for the input!