a year ago
Hello,
I using Railpack to deploy my PHP Laravel application, and its working fine.
But as a start command i have a requirement to run a node process for SSR (server side rendering) which is built by Inertia with Vuejs.
in logs I see this error
sh: 1: exec: node: not found [2025-05-18 16:34:07] production.ERROR: sh: 1: exec: node: not found {"exception":"[object] (Inertia\\Ssr\\SsrException(code: 0): sh: 1: exec: node: not found
8 Replies
a year ago
I believe the issue is in the final image that the build is producing
This is output from the build, as last steps
[railpack] merge $install:composer, $prune:node, $build
This seems to be removing node from the final build
and because my main project is PHP, its not considering node to be worth to keep it.
I added this env
RAILPACK_PRUNE_DEPS="false"
NODE_RUNTIME="true"
RAILPACK_NO_PRUNE="true"
but nothing seems to be working
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a year ago
Heya, can you try setting RAILPACK_NODE_VERSION ?
See our railpack docs for more help: https://railpack.com/config/file
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • about 1 year ago
a year ago
I set
RAILPACK_NODE_VERSION=22
same result
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • about 1 year ago
a year ago
As a work around (after couple of days of search and trying multiple methods)
I added this script which installs and rebuild node deps in my start script
# Install Node.js from NodeSource (adjust version if needed)
echo "Installing Node.js ..."
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | bash -
apt-get update && apt-get install -y nodejs
# Install dependencies and build
echo "Installing npm dependencies ..."
npm install
echo "Building assets ..."
npm run build
This worked, but I don't like this solutionhassanoumar
As a work around (after couple of days of search and trying multiple methods) I added this script which installs and rebuild node deps in my start script ```shellscript # Install Node.js from NodeSource (adjust version if needed) echo "Installing Node.js ..." curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | bash - apt-get update && apt-get install -y nodejs # Install dependencies and build echo "Installing npm dependencies ..." npm install echo "Building assets ..." npm run build This worked, but I don't like this solution ```
a year ago
Oh this is to install Node and rebuild on every start? Is it being reliable for you?
a year ago
Why don't you try to build a custom Docker image with PHP and Node?
hassanoumar
As a work around (after couple of days of search and trying multiple methods) I added this script which installs and rebuild node deps in my start script ```shellscript # Install Node.js from NodeSource (adjust version if needed) echo "Installing Node.js ..." curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | bash - apt-get update && apt-get install -y nodejs # Install dependencies and build echo "Installing npm dependencies ..." npm install echo "Building assets ..." npm run build This worked, but I don't like this solution ```
6 months ago
Have you figured out a better solution because currently I am having the same issue. I have two services SSR for running php inertia ssr and another just the normal php app
The ssr one seems not to run at all i am guessing it is because of the node issue you mentioned above. Did you figure out to handle it better?