Phoenix Edeliver release failure at npm install

Question

I am trying to release a Elixir, Phoenix app to digital ocean server with distillery and edeliver. Whenever I do the following command, I get the error.

mix edeliver build release --verbose

Error Message

A remote command failed on:

username@server-ip

Output of the command is shown above and the command executed
on that host is printed below for debugging purposes:

FAILED with exit status 255:

[ -f ~/.profile ] && source ~/.profile
set -e

cd '/home/username/myapp/builds/assets'
npm install

mix.exs

{:distillery, "~> 1.4"},
{:edeliver, "~> 1.4.3"}

.deliver/config

APP="myapp"

BUILD_HOST="server-ip"
BUILD_USER="username"
BUILD_AT="/home/username/myapp/builds"

PRODUCTION_HOSTS="server-ip"
PRODUCTION_USER="username"
DELIVER_TO="/home/username"

pre_erlang_clean_compile() {
   status "Installing NPM dependencies"
   __sync_remote "
     [ -f ~/.profile ] && source ~/.profile
     set -e
     cd '$BUILD_AT/assets'
     npm install $SILENCE
     "

 status "Building static files"
  __sync_remote "
    [ -f ~/.profile ] && source ~/.profile
    set -e

    cd '$BUILD_AT'
    mkdir -p priv/static
    npm run deploy $SILENCE
    "

 status "Running phoenix.digest"
 __sync_remote "
    [ -f ~/.profile ] && source ~/.profile
    set -e

    cd '$BUILD_AT'
    APP='$APP' MIX_ENV='$TARGET_MIX_ENV' $MIX_CMD phoenix.digest $SILENCE
    "
 }

Whenever I log on to the server and npm install, it works.

package.json

{
  "repository": {},
  "license": "MIT",
  "scripts": {
  "deploy": "brunch build --production",
  "watch": "brunch watch --stdin"
},
"dependencies": {
   "phoenix": "file:../deps/phoenix",
   "phoenix_html": "file:../deps/phoenix_html"
 },
 "devDependencies": {
   "babel-brunch": "6.1.1",
   "brunch": "2.10.9",
   "clean-css-brunch": "2.10.0",
   "uglify-js-brunch": "2.10.0"
 }
}

server: Ubuntu 16.04.4 Nodejs v6.14.3 Elixir 1.6.5 (compiled with OTP 19)

local: macOS High Sierra

I have searched a lot and tried re-installing npm and nodejs. Changing cd '$BUILD_AT/assets' in .deliver/config, no effect. I also tried adding this in prod.exs

server: true,
code_reloader: false,
version: Mix.Project.config[:version]

still having the issue.

What is your build host? It seems you are building in local, it won’t work in any case, since your local OS does not match target OS. Also, sharing the whole both error message and .deliver/config could help to diagnose. — Aleksei Matiushkin
@mudasobwa Hi I added full error message and build hosts of .deliver/config in the description. Does this help? — Yuki Umetsu

Jhon Cortes Jhon Cortes · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-15T17:49:28

first connect to the server via SSH an try run npm install at the path /home/username/myapp/builds/assets this will show you the error log on your server..

This is not a solution but it gives you an idea of what is going on in your server

Phoenix Edeliver release failure at npm install

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