Fail to deploy node.js application to heroku

Question

I am trying to deploy a simple node.js express-based application to heroku, something which is apparently very basic: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs

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Answer 1

I had this problem, and it was because:

1. I keep node_modules in version control
2. I had bin in my .gitignore file

npm was attempting to chmod express/bin/express, but due to my .gitignore this file wasn't in git and thus was not being cloned during the deploy, so it failed. I didn't notice it because a local npm install would create the bin/express file as usual.

Removing bin from .gitignore and committing the missing files solved the problem for me.