Railpack ignoring my build command

ellathet

PROOP

2 months ago

So I'm using a Nx as monorepo and pnpm workspace, the problem is:

I setup a railway.toml, but the railpack it's just ignoring the build cmd:

[build]
builder = "railpack"
buildCommand = "pnpm --filter api exec prisma generate && pnpm nx build api"
watchPatterns = ["apps/api/**", "packages/**", "package.json", "pnpm-lock.yaml"]

[deploy]
startCommand = "node dist/apps/api/main.js"
restartPolicyType = "on_failure"

And it's just trying to run:

pnpm nx build backend 3s NX   Cannot find project 'backend'
ERROR: failed to build: failed to solve: process "sh -c pnpm nx build backend" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1

I can try to change the app to be backend, but I like to use api.

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2 Replies

Anonymous

FREE

2 months ago

Railway auto detect an NX project. and run its default build command , try build command move to deploy,

[build]

builder = "railpack"

[deploy]

buildCommand = "pnpm --filter api exec prisma generate && pnpm nx build api"

startCommand = "node dist/apps/api/main.js"

restartPolicyType = "on_failure"

if not work use nixpacks builder

awasthi

FREE

2 months ago

Railpack sees your nx.json and thinks "I know how to build NX projects" — so it ignores your railway.toml and runs its own command: pnpm nx build <defaultProject>.

Your nx.json probably has this:

{
  "defaultProject": "backend"
}

That's where backend comes from. Change it to api and Railpack will run pnpm nx build api.

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