./bin/www issue with github commit and deployment

[vickyRathee]

Expressjs default template has .bin/www to start the node js app. But bin folder is never committed to github (I can't find anyway until now).

So my codeCommit pipeline fails -

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/var/log/nodejs/nodejs.log
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}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! myApp@0.0.0 start: `node ./bin/www`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the myApp@0.0.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

Should I delete the bin folder and rename www with server.js ? What exactly the www does? If I put it on main directory with rename..Will it cause any problem?

Or anyway to push it on git commit?

[dougwilson]

If it is not being added with get add bin/www it sounds like you may have a git ignore ignoring that directory or file. You can generate your project with --git option to create a .gitignore with the expected filters.

[vickyRathee]

No, it's nowhere in .gitignore. I saw other people have similar issue and can't upload /bin folder https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27575228/cant-push-bin-directory-to-github

[ryhinchey]

@vickyRathee Do you happen to have bin in a global gitignore file?

[jonchurch]

You can rule out if it's a a gitignore issue with a few commands.

Check what files are currently being ignored with:

git status --ignored

And then find what gitignore is responsible with:

git check-ignore -v bin

That last command may or may not work on windows.