Error Message:

npm error notarget No matching version found for jsonwebtokeno9.1.2
npm error notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm error notarget a package version that doesn't exist.

The Issue:

npm is trying to install a package named jsonwebtokeno9.1.2 (malformed - missing colon, concatenated) instead of the correct package jsonwebtoken version ^9.1.2.

What We've Verified:

1. GitHub Repository - package.json is correct:

"jsonwebtoken": "^9.1.2",  

1. Local File - package.json is valid JSON with proper formatting (verified with Python json.tool)
2. Git History - The dependency line is correctly formatted in all recent commits
3. Raw GitHub File - Confirmed via https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thaluaclub/noidacircle-api/main/package.json - shows correct format

Troubleshooting Attempted:

• Added NO_CACHE=1 environment variable (per Railway docs)
• Pushed multiple fresh commits to trigger rebuilds
• Modified package.json (version bump) to force fresh pull
• Verified JSON syntax validity
• Still fails with same error despite all above

Suspected Cause:

Either:

1. Railway's Git integration is fetching a stale/cached version of package.json
2. Character encoding issue where : is being read as o
3. npm is reading a corrupted version of the file

Build Details:

• Repository: thaluaclub/noidacircle-api
• Branch: main
• Recent commits tried: 903b19f, 4cfd646, c680b1c