When I try to upload my Node.js project on Elastic Beanstalk I obtain the following error:
Failed to find package.json. Node.js may have issues starting. Verify package.json is valid or place code in a file named server.js or app.js.
However, I have the package.json in the main directory.
A couple of people were zipping the parent folder incorrectly. You need to select all the contents of the folder and zip those.
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While uploading the .zip file (Nodejs application) we need to select all the files in the folder, then zip it as shown in below screenshot.
Then upload the Nodejs(zip file) project in AWS Elastic Beanstalck.
node_modules/ directory as well?
package.json? It's not immediately clear. LOLI had the same issue running a zip of node js boilerplate. It worked when I removed .git and .idea directories and n.gitignore file from the zip.
You need to zip the build directory, to do so inside that directory you can zip -r upload.zip . (do not forget the dot at the end for current directory).
So in that directory you need to have your index.js or server.js as EB looks for how to run the app in the directory only and will not look into folders src, dist etc.
This can be the packaging issue. You will need to go inside the project and compress altogether as provided in the screenshot:
If you use eb cli, make sure you have git committed all the changes.
If you do zip and upload, make sure you don't zip the parent folder but selecting all files and zip.
eb deploy --staged to deploy also the uncommitted files.In my case i have found a wrong copy of the folder .elasticbeanstalk with inside another config.yml
example
root_project_folder
.elasticbeanstalk/
config.yml
public/
.elasticbeanstalk/
config.yml
and when I started the "eb deploy" command it failed because use the wrong public/ folder as a ROOT
removing the public/.elasticbeanstalk/ have resolved my issue Ciao
You can also have this error if your package.json is missing the start command
{
"name": "test",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"start": "node index.js" <-- add this if missing
},
"dependencies": {
}
}
