NodeJS not installed with a custom buildpack

[johnwen84]

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Describe the bug and the command you saw an issue with I need to install some extra libraries for puppeteer to work with my NodeJS application. I created a custom buildpack in attempt to accomplish that. I added this to my yaml, buildpacks:

• https://github.com/johnwen84/bluemix-puppeteer-buildpack When I pushed the app I see this in the console: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/nodejs-buildpack https://github.com/johnwen84/bluemix-puppeteer-buildpack with the line for nodejs-buildpack in red. The CLI obviously detected that this is a NodeJS app, but not sure what it means when the nodejs-buildpack is in red. See results below.

What happened My buildpack runs successfully, but NodeJS is not installed. The app fails with a npm not found error (The app command is npm start)

Expected behavior I expected that my app runs with my buildpack installing the libraries correctly

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior; include the exact CLI commands and verbose output:

1. Run cf ...
2. Bind a service cf bind-service
3. See error

I also tried I tried to include this in the yaml file: buildpacks:

• https://github.com/johnwen84/bluemix-puppeteer-buildpack
• https://github.com/cloudfoundry/nodejs-buildpack NodeJS will be installed but my buildpack will not run. I can see the supply script being called but somehow it didn't call the finalize script which installs the libraries

If I put this in the yaml file, buildpacks:

• https://github.com/cloudfoundry/nodejs-buildpack
• https://github.com/johnwen84/bluemix-puppeteer-buildpack My buildpack will run and NodeJS will be installed, but the app still fails with an "npm not found" error.

Provide more context

• platform and shell details ( e.g. Mac OS X 10.11 iTerm) Windows 10
• version of the CLI you are running 6.39
• version of the CC API Release you are on

Note: As of January 2018, we no longer support API versions older than 2.69.0/3.4.0 (CF Release: 251 / CAPI Release: 1.15.0)

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[johnwen84]

I have figured this out. I think I can do,

buildpacks:

• https://github.com/johnwen84/bluemix-puppeteer-buildpack
• https://github.com/cloudfoundry/nodejs-buildpack

and include the script that installs the libraries in supply instead of finalize in my buildpack.

My question now is that is it necessary to explicitly include nodejs-buildpack here? Or should the CLI automatically include it?

[abbyachau]

Hi @johnwen84 please if you could hop on to Slack at Cloud Foundry either at #cli or #buildpacks for these types of questions - that would be helpful. After trying with the aforementioned solution, please pop by either of those channels should you require additional help. Thanks.