Using git submodules in project. NPM can't find the package.json inside submodule. | Railway | Page 1

cursive cradle Nov 3, 2022, 8:59 PM

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Do I need to run another command do download the submodule?

This project works fine on CloudFlare without a hitch...

Am I missing a step here? 🙂

hard dragon Nov 10, 2022, 10:23 AM

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I read this: https://nixpacks.com/docs/guides/configuring-builds.

Based on those docs for configuring builds, I tried to see if running git commands is possible like:
nixpacks.toml:

[phases.install]
cmds = ['...', 'git submodule update --init']

to

Procfile:

web: git submodule update && uvicorn main:app

None of them work
I think the repository isn't even cloned to begin with. Because every time I run git-specific commands, it says that there's no .git in the current directory or the parent. (in the build/deploy logs).

I think Railway just doesn't support submodules, Vercel does though.

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And Vercel does it automatically: (source: Vercel)

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Hoping Railway does the same in the future. I saw someone sent this a while back, so it's probably in review atm:
https://feedback.railway.app/feature-requests/p/git-submodules-support

outer aspen Dec 13, 2022, 8:14 PM

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running into the exact same issue. Hope this will be supported soon.

ebon meadowBOT Dec 15, 2022, 1:57 AM

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#Using git submodules in project. NPM can't find the package.json inside submodule.