Question

App platform build with pnpm command. Possible?

Getting cipm can only install packages with an existing package-lock.json error on deploy because there is no package-lock.json (or yarn.lock, for that matter) on my repository. I’m using pnpm.

Tried changing the build command to pnpm build, hoping that pnpm would be installed and used for installation, but got the same error.

No way to use pnpm? Do I need to install my deps using npm and push my lockfile? Because if that’s so, that’s a deal breaker for me.

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Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• May 8, 2024

Pinned Answer

Hi there,

Quick update here in case that anyone comes across this in the future.

DigitalOcean have updated the NodeJS buildpack for App Platform.

The buildpack now supports the PNPM package manager. For more information and configuration options, see the buildpack’s documentation page.

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby

njw

DigitalOcean Employee

• April 22, 2021

Hey there!

App Platform doesn’t support pnpm out of the box unfortunately. However you could use this in a Dockerfile build instead. That should allow for installation of any necessary software.

The underlying build-packs(Heroku) don’t yet support pnpm as far as I can tell. Should it be added in the future, I don’t see any reason it wouldn’t be added to ours as well.

lucas1bfa26c31c0271d388ed5 • May 30, 2022