How do I deploy Node_Modules on Google App Engine Flexible

[Dos Branding]

After deploying my files, my node_modules folder is not being deployed. How do I enable it to work.

I am running on PHP Flexible.

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Dos, 

How did you deploy your app? What commands did you run? As a first step, you may consider running 'gcloud components update', and then try deploying again. 

If you run gcloud app deploy, what directory were you in? If you deploy again with gcloud app deploy --verbosity=debug, what is the output from this command? 

You may have a look at the Quickstart page for reference. 

What is the output of gcloud info? 

[Dos Branding]

After running gcloud app deploy --verbosity=debug this is what I got.

Result: {
    "response": {
        "betaSettings": {
            "has_docker_image": "true",
            "module_yaml_path": "app.yaml",
            "no_appserver_affinity": "true",
            "use_deployment_manager": "true"
        },
        "versionUrl": "https://[REDACTED].appspot.com",
        "livenessCheck": {
            "successThreshold": 2,
            "timeout": "4s",
            "initialDelay": "300s",
            "checkInterval": "30s",
            "failureThreshold": 4
        },
        "name": "apps/[REDACTED]/services/[REDACTED]/versions/[REDACTED]",
        "runtimeApiVersion": "1.0",
        "servingStatus": "SERVING",
        "createTime": "2019-01-14T18:12:26Z",
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.appengine.v1.Version",
        "env": "flexible",
        "automaticScaling": {
            "maxTotalInstances": 20,
            "minTotalInstances": 2,
            "cpuUtilization": {
                "targetUtilization": 0.5
            },
            "coolDownPeriod": "120s"
        },
        "runtime": "php",
        "id": "[REDACTED]",
        "readinessCheck": {
            "successThreshold": 2,
            "appStartTimeout": "300s",
            "timeout": "4s",
            "checkInterval": "5s",
            "failureThreshold": 2
        },
        "threadsafe": true
    },
    "done": true,
    "name": "apps/[REDACTED]/operations/c029133f-04bb-4207-97f9-2156f77e6eb0",
    "metadata": {
        "target": "apps/[REDACTED]/services/[REDACTED]/versions/[REDACTED]",
        "method": "google.appengine.v1.Versions.CreateVersion",
        "user": "[REDACTED]",
        "insertTime": "2019-01-14T18:12:23.628Z",
        "endTime": "2019-01-14T18:20:24.557Z",
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.appengine.v1.OperationMetadataV1"
    }
}
Updating service [[REDACTED]] (this may take several minutes)...done.
DEBUG: Operation [apps/[REDACTED]/operations/3384f64f-d388-4fa7-a826-a46dcb9c3179] not complete. Waiting to retry.
Setting traffic split for service [[REDACTED]]...⠛DEBUG: Operation [apps/[REDACTED]/operations/3384f64f-d388-4fa7-a826-a46dcb9c3179] not complete. Waiting to retry.
Setting traffic split for service [[REDACTED]]...⠹DEBUG: Operation [apps/[REDACTED]/operations/3384f64f-d388-4fa7-a826-a46dcb9c3179] complete. Result: {
    "response": {
        "split": {
            "allocations": {
                "[REDACTED]": 1
            }
        },
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.appengine.v1.Service",
        "name": "apps/[REDACTED]/services/[REDACTED]",
        "id": "default"
    },
    "done": true,
    "name": "apps/[REDACTED]/operations/3384f64f-d388-4fa7-a826-a46dcb9c3179",
    "metadata": {
        "target": "apps/[REDACTED]/services/default",
        "method": "google.appengine.v1.Services.UpdateService",
        "user": "[REDACTED]",
        "insertTime": "2019-01-14T18:20:28.271Z",
        "endTime": "2019-01-14T18:20:29.593Z",
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.appengine.v1.OperationMetadataV1"
    }
}
Setting traffic spEnter code here...

Output of gcloud info is  

Google Cloud SDK [229.0.0]

Platform: [Mac OS X, x86_64] ('Darwin', '[REDACTED]', '17.7.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 17.7.0: Fri Nov  2 20:43:16 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4570.71.17~1/RELEASE_X86_64', 'x86_64', 'i386')
Python Version: [2.7.15 (default, Jan 12 2019, 21:43:48)  [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)]]
Python Location: [/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python]
Site Packages: [Disabled]

Installation Root: [/Users/[REDACTED]/Documents/google-cloud-sdk]
Installed Components:
  core: [2019.01.04]
  gsutil: [4.35]
  bq: [2.0.39]
  alpha: [2018.11.09]
System PATH: [/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.2/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2o/bin:/Users/[REDACTED]/Documents/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.2.10/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin]
Python PATH: [/Users/[REDACTED]/Documents/google-cloud-sdk/lib/third_party:/Users/[REDACTED]/Documents/google-cloud-sdk/lib:/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip:/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7:/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin:/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac:/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages:/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk:/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old:/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload]
Cloud SDK on PATH: [True]
Kubectl on PATH: [False]

Installation Properties: [/Users/[REDACTED]/Documents/google-cloud-sdk/properties]
User Config Directory: [/Users/[REDACTED]/.config/gcloud]
Active Configuration Name: [default]
Active Configuration Path: [/Users/[REDACTED]/.config/gcloud/configurations/config_default]

Account: [[REDACTED]]
Project: [[REDACTED]]

Current Properties:
  [core]
    project: [[REDACTED]]
    account: [[REDACTED]]
    disable_usage_reporting: [False]
  [compute]
    region: [us-east4]
    zone: [us-east4-c]

Logs Directory: [/Users/[REDACTED]/.config/gcloud/logs]
Last Log File: [/Users/[REDACTED]/.config/gcloud/logs/2019.01.14/13.11.11.125328.log]

git: [git version 2.14.1]
ssh: [OpenSSH_7.8p1, LibreSSL 2.6.2]Enter code here...

[Dos Branding]

Hi George, please review the results I posted below and let me know the error I am facing.

[Tiago (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi,

When using the flex environment, by default, the `node_modules` folder is added to your (hidden) .gcloudignore file and is not uploaded as part of your deployment. To deploy pre-installed dependencies, make sure to remove `node_modules/` from the `.gcloudifnore` file before deploying your application.

We should also apologize for not asking you to send us the REDACTED info by using the `--anonymize` flag. So, I have edited your previous post and removed the sensitive info out of your post.  

[Dos Branding]

It worked.

I added a .gcloudignore file and in the file added

!node_modules.

[Tiago (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing the steps you've performed to resolve this issue.