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Greetings I have a problem with Heroku because it’s don’t want to install legacy packages for my Shopify app, my Shopify app is on Github and I just set up everything that my application needs, but when I deploy the main branch on Heroku I get this error in Heroku console below, can someone help me fix this?

-----> Building on the Heroku-20 stack
-----> Using buildpack: heroku/nodejs
-----> Node.js app detected
       
-----> Creating runtime environment
       
       NPM_CONFIG_LOGLEVEL=error
       USE_NPM_INSTALL=true
       NODE_VERBOSE=false
       NODE_ENV=production
       NODE_MODULES_CACHE=false
       
-----> Installing binaries
       engines.node (package.json):  unspecified
       engines.npm (package.json):   unspecified (use default)
       
       Resolving node version 16.x...
       Downloading and installing node 16.14.0...
       Using default npm version: 8.3.1
       
-----> Restoring cache
       Caching has been disabled because NODE_MODULES_CACHE=false
       
-----> Installing dependencies
       Installing node modules (package.json + package-lock)
       npm ERR! code ERESOLVE
       npm ERR! ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree
       npm ERR! 
       npm ERR! While resolving: [email protected]
       npm ERR! Found: [email protected]
       npm ERR! node_modules/react
       npm ERR!   react@"^16.10.1" from the root project
       npm ERR! 
       npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:
       npm ERR! peer react@"^17.0.2 || ^18.0.0-0" from [email protected]
       npm ERR! node_modules/next
       npm ERR!   next@"^12.0.2" from the root project
       npm ERR! 
       npm ERR! Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
       npm ERR! this command with --force, or --legacy-peer-deps
       npm ERR! to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.
       npm ERR! 
       npm ERR! See /tmp/npmcache.CTfHl/eresolve-report.txt for a full report.
       
       npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
       npm ERR!     /tmp/npmcache.CTfHl/_logs/2022-02-10T12_18_50_156Z-debug-0.log
-----> Build failed
       
       We're sorry this build is failing! You can troubleshoot common issues here:
       https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/troubleshooting-node-deploys
       
       Some possible problems:
       
       - Node version not specified in package.json
         https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs-support#specifying-a-node-js-version
       
       Love,
       Heroku
       
 !     Push rejected, failed to compile Node.js app.
 !     Push failed

My package.json

{
  "name": "shopify-app-node",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Shopify's node app for CLI tool",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "jest",
    "dev": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development nodemon ./server/index.js --watch ./server/index.js",
    "build": "NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 next build",
    "start": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production node ./server/index.js"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": "16.14.0",
    "npm": "8.4.1"
  },
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "git+https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-app-node.git"
  },
  "author": "Shopify Inc.",
  "license": "MIT",
  "bugs": {
    "url": "https://github.com/shopify/shopify-app-node/issues"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "7.12.10",
    "@babel/polyfill": "^7.6.0",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.12.11",
    "@babel/register": "^7.12.10",
    "@shopify/app-bridge-react": "^2.0.2",
    "@shopify/app-bridge-utils": "^2.0.2",
    "@shopify/koa-shopify-auth": "^4.1.2",
    "@shopify/polaris": "^6.2.0",
    "apollo-boost": "^0.4.9",
    "axios": "^0.25.0",
    "cross-env": "^7.0.3",
    "dotenv": "^8.2.0",
    "graphql": "^14.5.8",
    "isomorphic-fetch": "^3.0.0",
    "koa": "^2.13.1",
    "koa-bodyparser": "^4.3.0",
    "koa-compress": "^5.1.0",
    "koa-cors": "0.0.16",
    "koa-logger": "^3.2.1",
    "koa-router": "^10.0.0",
    "koa-session": "^6.1.0",
    "mysql2": "^2.3.3",
    "next": "^12.0.2",
    "next-env": "^1.1.0",
    "node-fetch": "^2.6.7",
    "react": "^16.10.1",
    "react-apollo": "^3.1.3",
    "react-dom": "^16.10.1",
    "sequelize": "^6.13.0",
    "slugify": "^1.6.5",
    "validator": "^13.7.0",
    "webpack": "^4.44.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/plugin-transform-runtime": "^7.12.10",
    "@babel/preset-stage-3": "^7.0.0",
    "babel-jest": "26.6.3",
    "babel-register": "^6.26.0",
    "enzyme": "3.11.0",
    "enzyme-adapter-react-16": "1.15.6",
    "husky": "^4.3.6",
    "jest": "26.6.3",
    "lint-staged": "^10.5.4",
    "nodemon": "^2.0.7",
    "prettier": "2.2.1",
    "react-addons-test-utils": "15.6.2",
    "react-test-renderer": "16.14.0"
  },
  "husky": {
    "hooks": {
      "pre-commit": "lint-staged"
    }
  },
  "lint-staged": {
    "*.{js,css,json,md}": [
      "prettier --write"
    ]
  }
}

6

Answers


  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
    1. I install these old packages with npm install --force
    2. I run npm outdated
    3. I see what packages are in red
    4. I do upgrade from the current version to the wanted version with npm install --save packagename@wanted_version
    5. Remove any empty files that you may have in your project
    6. Uploaded to git
    7. Deploy to Heroku

  2. Your lock file contains conflicting dependencies. Since you were able to reproduce the error locally using npm ci we have a good way to test a fix locally.

    It looks like you are depending directly on React 16. Is that something that you need directly, or is it just a dependency for Next.js?

    If it’s not something you need directly, upgrade it per the Next.js docs:

    npm install react@latest react-dom@latest
    

    That should modify your package-lock.json. Then try installing from the lock file again with npm ci. If that fixes things, commit the change and redeploy.

    On the other hand, if you are directly depending on React 16 and cannot upgrade you’ll have to consider rolling back to an earlier version of Next.js.

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  3. If you cannot reproduce locally, set package.json engines: to match your local development

    This is not the OP’s exact issue as they had specified engines: and reproduced locally, so definitely what they needed was to resolve it locally first, which is a subset of the infinite Unable to resolve dependency tree error when installing npm packages

    But I couldn’t reproduce locally even after delting node_modules and package-lock.json, so as soon as I set engines:, which Heroku respects, to match my local working setup node --version and npm --version with:

      "engines": {
        "node": "14.17.0",
        "npm": "6.14.13"
      },
    

    it started working on Heroku. Here’s my failing package.json to which the engines were added. The error was:

    remote:        Installing node modules (package.json)                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
    remote:        npm ERR! code ERESOLVE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
    remote:        npm ERR! ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree                                                                                                                                                                                                              
    remote:        npm ERR!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
    remote:        npm ERR! While resolving: [email protected]                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
    remote:        npm ERR! Found: [email protected]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
    remote:        npm ERR! node_modules/react                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
    remote:        npm ERR!   react@"17.0.2" from the root project                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
    remote:        npm ERR!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
    remote:        npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
    remote:        npm ERR! peer react@"^16.11.0" from [email protected]                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
    remote:        npm ERR! node_modules/swr                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
    remote:        npm ERR!   swr@"0.3.0" from the root project
    

    Prior to the fix, Heroku logs show it was using:

    remote:        Downloading and installing node 16.14.0...                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
    remote:        Using default npm version: 8.3.1
    

    For this reason, you should Always, Always, set engines to match your local setup on a Heroku project.

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  4. Ciro Santilli’s way solved my problem:

    I added these lines to package.json and the problem fixed:

      "engines": {
        "node": "16.x",
        "npm": "8.5.5"
      },
    

    Apparently for me the "knex" module that I use is not compatible with newer npm (I am not sure).

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  5. You may use .npmrc

    New versions of npm do not allow you to install dependencies with different versions of peer dependencies because it may lead to breaking change. So if you are sure that everything works without any issues, maybe you have good tests. Just add --legacy-peer-deps or --force after your npm script (basically it’s npm i). But it’s so annoying to write it, instead you can create ‘.npmrc’ file in the root of your project with following:

    legacy-peer-deps=true
    ...
    

    or even:

    force=true
    ...
    

    Now you don’t need to add --legacy-peer-deps or --force manually.

    ps. It also solves the problem with Heroku when you cannot explicitly use npm i --legacy-peer-deps. At least I don’t know how to do so.

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  6. I found a solution. You can add config variables in Heroku apps.

    Go to the app in Heroku -> settings -> Reveal Config Vars

    Add a new config var with the key: NPM_CONFIG_LEGACY_PEER_DEPS and value true, and then redeploy.

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