Ok, so after hours of Googling around it turns out Google cloud platform offers a registry of different npm cloud builders for use with Google cloud build.
I could have solved my issue by creating my own docker image but I wanted to avoid this in favour of the default cloud builders docker image. I changed my cloudbuild.yaml file to include the following builder 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/npm:node-10.10.0' instead of 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/npm' this then updated the node version to node 10.10.0 and just like magic Angular 8 can now be built by google cloud build!
Specific node versions from the cloud builders repository can be found here: https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/cloud-builders/GLOBAL/npm
As suggested by their documentation you should instead using an official node image and specifying the npm entrypoint:
steps:
- name: node:10.15.1
entrypoint: npm
args: ['install']
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-builders/blob/master/npm/README.md
Okay, after hours of trying to compile my new app and search on Google, there is no clear information on how to use the new version of Node.js within the Google app engine platform.
I gave myself the task of building my own file cloudbuild.yaml to be used on the Google cloud platform and this was my result, I hope it helps many who must have the same error:
steps:
# Install node packages
- name: node:10.16.3
entrypoint: npm
args: ['install']
# Build productive files
- name: node:10.16.3
entrypoint: npm
args: [ 'run', 'build', '--prod' ]
# Deploy to google cloud app engine
- name: "gcr.io/cloud-builders/gcloud"
args: ['app', 'deploy', '--version=demo']
You can access the original file here in GitHub
This link has all the current versions and their tags:
https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/cloud-builders/GLOBAL/npm
For example in cloudbuild.yaml I used
which uses the current tag.
