gcloud crashes when I try to deploy create-react-app project to GAE

Question

My component/service 'default' in my GAE project is a Java backend. Now I want another component/service e.g. 'client' which is a react frontend, calling the Java backend. As a start I just want to deploy create-react-app, so I did the following:

1. Create a basic react project and run it locally:

npx create-react-app my-app

cd my-app

npm start

2. Build for production:

npm run build

3. Configure GAE to add a the new service 'client': gcloud init

4. Add an app.yaml file to the root of the react project with the following contents:

   runtime nodejs10

   service client

   5. Deploy to GAE:

gcloud app deploy

I get the following result:

ERROR: gcloud crashed (TypeError): expected string or buffer

Thanks, -Louise

Answer 1

Sorry, my mistake - it turns out that I somehow did not include the colons in the app.yaml - a variant of this error: GAE app deployment fails with 'crash' error