Static Web Apps Tutorial: Error from Git:Push operation - Installing nodejs

Question

I'm walking through the tutorial "Add an API to Azure Static Web Apps with Azure Functions":

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/add-api?tabs=vanilla-javascript

I'm able to run the app locally but am getting an error at "Deploy Changes" (near the end), Step 5 pushing changes to Git.

The log from GitHub includes the following:

Detecting platforms... Detected following platforms: nodejs: 18.20.4 Version '18.20.4' of platform 'nodejs' is not installed. Generating script to install it... Error: Could not find either 'build' or 'build:azure' node under 'scripts' in package.json. Could not find value for custom run build command using the environment variable key 'RUN_BUILD_COMMAND'.Could not find tools for building monorepos, no 'lerna.json' or 'lage.config.js' files found.

My YAML file is updated per the tutorial to include the following:

          app_location: "/" # App source code path
          api_location: "api" # Api source code path - optional
          output_location: "build" # Built app content directory - optional 

This is package.json in its entirety:

{
  "name": "vanilla-basic",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "scripts": { 
    "start": "sirv ./src public --cors --single --no-clear --port 8000"
  }
}

Please advise. Thanks!

Answer 1

@Rob Innes Thanks for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A, apologize for any inconvenience caused on this.

As mentioned earlier, we are also facing the same issue when we use the below values as in API location to our workflow.

app_location: "/"
 api_location: "api"
 output_location: "build" 

Could you please update the values of api_location, app_location,output_location in your .github/workflows/azure-static-web-apps-<DEFAULT-HOSTNAME>.yml.

Post making the above changes I am able to deploy & request the static webapp without any issues. Also, seems like document is outdated I have shared the feedback to internal team to make the above changes accordingly.

Hope this helps, let me know if you have any further questions on this.

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