Deploying App on heroku node command not found

Question

I have basically modified this app

https://github.com/heroku/node-js-getting-started.git

Now am trying to deploy in Heroku

My Procfile has this line

web:node index.js

And when I run this command locally,there are no probs..

However if I try to open the link in my browser after following all the steps in https://blog.risingstack.com/node-hero-deploy-node-js-heroku-docker/

I get an error On checking the logs using heroku logs command I am getting 'node command not found' Anyone knows the prob?

P.S : I tried changing Procfile contents to npm start but that doesnt launch index.js in the browser.

Answer 1

I suspect that you have not set the buildpacks. Buildpacks tells heroku which kind of application is yours.

Use the below command to set the application of type nodejs.

heroku buildpacks:set heroku/nodejs

And make sure that you have a package.json file in the root of the project which is read by heroku to install the project dependencies.

Answer 2

Why don't you try this below in your Procfile.In my case it runs nicely.

 web npm install