Unable to deploy 'blank/new' npx create-payload-app to Payload Cloud

oldmanpewpewlast year

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  denolfe

  last year

  I can look into this today

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  oldmanpewpewlast year

  I just saw it flash in the logs that yarn was missing (we don't use yarn)

  
  
  

  so I did a quick npm install --save-dev yarn

  
  
  

  trying that

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  denolfe

  last year

  Likely just a build issue, I will look shortly

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  oldmanpewpewlast year

  I also saw:

  │ ---> Downloading and extracting Node v16.20.2

  and thought node v16 was beyond EOL (even for security updates). Just thought i'd mention

  
  
  

  heh -- well, it definitely got farther I think today -- but still fails to deploy and there is no way to view the logs (they vanish from the UI)

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  denolfe

  last year

  Your run script is set to

  npm run start

  , but you likely do not have a script named that. It is likely

  serve

  that needs to be run if you used the blank template.

  
  
  

  I'd check that first.
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  oldmanpewpewlast year

  Trying that thanks. This part of the UI on payloadcms.com -^ just vanishes when the build fails heh. So it makes it hard to know where to look 🙂
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  denolfe

  last year

  Re: Node.js version. This should be defaulting to Node 20 unless you've specified a version in your package.json. I can look into this.

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  oldmanpewpewlast year

  I didn't edit the package.json that npx create-payload-app at all.

  
  
  

  So no specified node version, and no yarn (which causes it also to fail).

  
  
  

  so seems like possibly a few things:

  
  

  1. npx create-payload-app needs some tweaking

  
  

  2. The 'default settings' for payloadcms.com for a imported project should possibly? do npm run serve vs npm run start (I hadn't edited those either)

  
  

  3. The error message on payloadcms.com indicates MONGODB_URI needs to be set possibly, when i'm pretty sure the code (again from npx create-payload-app for a blank template) has DATABASE_URI in it.

  
  
  

  it has deployed and is live! 🙂

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  denolfe

  last year

  All of these things noted. Thank you for the feedback 👍

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  oldmanpewpewlast year

  excited to kick tires on this. thanks for your help!