Azure - Sentry's raven npm package not installing

Question

I am using CircleCI to build the project and push it to a local repository provided by Azure's Web app. Up until I added raven as a package to repository everything worked fine, but suddenly, this single package is refusing to be installed on azure - with no error.

Even though when I connect to the console on Azure and check package.json I can see that raven is enlisted in dependencies (I made sure it is not in dev), for some reason it is never in node_modules.

Any ideas why this might be happening?

For what it's worth, build is being done on Ubuntu 14 (Circle), and it is being deployed to Windows Web App (Azure), however I fail to see how it could be relevant if node_modules are being installed for every step anew.

Answer 1

When you push a commit to Azure remote repo, the Azure deployment task will get the package.json and automatically install dependencies by running the following deployment script:

:: 3. Install npm packages
IF EXIST "%DEPLOYMENT_TARGET%\package.json" (
  pushd "%DEPLOYMENT_TARGET%"
  call :ExecuteCmd !NPM_CMD! install --production
  IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 goto error
  popd
)

I am able to install raven-js by putting it to package.json and deploy my app to Azure Web App via Local Git repository.

Here is my testing screenshot:

If you don't want to deploy your app via SCM, you'll need to go to the root of your app and execute the command npm install --production manually in Kudu Debug console which can be accessed by: https://<yourwebsitename>.scm.azurewebsites.net/DebugConsole.