failure to deploy a simple nodejs app in cloudfoundry v2

Question

I have a simple node.js web server, consisting of 1 js file plus a directory of static files to serve. It worked fine in cloudfoundry v1, but when I try to push it to cloudfoundry v2 with the following command:

cf push --name myname --command "node app.js"

It fails with:

/var/vcap/packages/dea_next/buildpacks/lib/buildpack.rb:44:in `build_pack': Unable to detect a supported application type (RuntimeError)

Thanks for any suggestion.

Answer 1

I received the answer on a cloudfoundry forum (cloudfoundry.zendesk.com):

"The key indicator for Cloud Foundry that you are staging a node application is the presence of a 'package.json' file. Create one in your application folder with basic information and it should work."

I added a 'package.json' and now it works.