Railway•16mo ago

Error reading package.json as JSON

Hello I keep getting this error

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Using Nixpacks
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context: abf83e94d72946be98c798215c324d6b
Nixpacks build failed
 
Error: Error reading package.json as JSON
 
Caused by:
invalid type: sequence, expected a map at line 6 column 13

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Using Nixpacks
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context: abf83e94d72946be98c798215c324d6b
Nixpacks build failed
 
Error: Error reading package.json as JSON
 
Caused by:
invalid type: sequence, expected a map at line 6 column 13

Solution:

that is indeed an invalid package.json

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4 Replies

Percy•16mo ago

Project ID: c6eed92b-35df-4f7e-8e69-faf8b25d7688

X_DigitalNinjaOP•16mo ago

c6eed92b-35df-4f7e-8e69-faf8b25d7688 This is my project file

{
  "name": "Universal",
  "version": "1.50",
  "description": "",
  "main": "src/index.js",
  "scripts": [],
  "author": "Jordan",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "chalk": "^4.1.0",
    "discord-giveaways": "^6.0.1",
    "discord.js": "^14.11.0",
    "dotenv": "^16.3.1",
    "mongoose": "^6.11.4"
  },
  "nodeVersion": "20.0.0"
}

{
  "name": "Universal",
  "version": "1.50",
  "description": "",
  "main": "src/index.js",
  "scripts": [],
  "author": "Jordan",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "chalk": "^4.1.0",
    "discord-giveaways": "^6.0.1",
    "discord.js": "^14.11.0",
    "dotenv": "^16.3.1",
    "mongoose": "^6.11.4"
  },
  "nodeVersion": "20.0.0"
}

Solution

Brody•16mo ago

that is indeed an invalid package.json

Brody•16mo ago

scripts is supposed to be an object, not an array and it should be engines.node = 20 not nodeVersion although railway only supports up to node 18

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