diff --git a/cmd/meroxa/root/apps/deploy.go b/cmd/meroxa/root/apps/deploy.go
index a39040e4c..23c5572a4 100644
--- a/cmd/meroxa/root/apps/deploy.go
+++ b/cmd/meroxa/root/apps/deploy.go
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ func (d *Deploy) Execute(ctx context.Context) error {
 	case GoLang:
 		deployOutput, err = d.deploy(ctx, d.path, d.logger)
 	case "js", JavaScript, NodeJs:
-		err = turbineJS.Deploy(ctx, d.path, d.logger)
+		deployOutput, err = turbineJS.Deploy(ctx, d.path, d.logger)
 	default:
 		return fmt.Errorf("language %q not supported. %s", d.lang, LanguageNotSupportedError)
 	}
@@ -437,7 +437,10 @@ func (d *Deploy) Execute(ctx context.Context) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	pipelineUUID := turbineCLI.GetPipelineUUID(deployOutput)
+	pipelineUUID, err := turbineCLI.GetPipelineUUID(deployOutput)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 	gitSha, err := turbineCLI.GetGitSha(d.path)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
diff --git a/cmd/meroxa/turbine_cli/javascript/deploy.go b/cmd/meroxa/turbine_cli/javascript/deploy.go
index b22d4aab8..d61979480 100644
--- a/cmd/meroxa/turbine_cli/javascript/deploy.go
+++ b/cmd/meroxa/turbine_cli/javascript/deploy.go
@@ -13,18 +13,17 @@ import (
 
 // npx turbine whatever path => CLI could carry on with creating the tar.zip, post source, build...
 // once that's complete, it's when we'd call `npx turbine deploy path`.
-func Deploy(ctx context.Context, path string, l log.Logger) error {
+func Deploy(ctx context.Context, path string, l log.Logger) (string, error) {
 	cmd := exec.Command("npx", "turbine", "deploy", path)
 
 	accessToken, _, err := global.GetUserToken()
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return "", err
 	}
 	cmd.Env = os.Environ()
 	cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env, fmt.Sprintf("MEROXA_ACCESS_TOKEN=%s", accessToken))
 
-	_, err = turbinecli.RunCmdWithErrorDetection(ctx, cmd, l)
-	return err
+	return turbinecli.RunCmdWithErrorDetection(ctx, cmd, l)
 }
 
 // 1. we build binary (Go) // we set up the app structure (JS/Python) <- CLI could do this
diff --git a/cmd/meroxa/turbine_cli/utils.go b/cmd/meroxa/turbine_cli/utils.go
index ac0a9ca2e..8e9a8eb60 100644
--- a/cmd/meroxa/turbine_cli/utils.go
+++ b/cmd/meroxa/turbine_cli/utils.go
@@ -177,13 +177,15 @@ func GitChecks(ctx context.Context, l log.Logger, appPath string) error {
 }
 
 // GetPipelineUUID parses the deploy output when it was successful to determine the pipeline UUID to create.
-func GetPipelineUUID(output string) string {
+func GetPipelineUUID(output string) (string, error) {
 	// Example output:
 	// 2022/03/16 13:21:36 pipeline created: "turbine-pipeline-simple" ("049760a8-a3d2-44d9-b326-0614c09a3f3e").
 	re := regexp.MustCompile(`pipeline:."turbine-pipeline-[a-z0-9-]+".(\([^)]*\))`)
-	res := re.FindStringSubmatch(output)[1]
-	res = strings.Trim(res, "()\"")
-	return res
+	matches := re.FindStringSubmatch(output)
+	if len(matches) < 2 { //nolint:gomnd
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("pipeline UUID not found")
+	}
+	return strings.Trim(matches[1], "()\""), nil
 }
 
 // ValidateBranch validates the deployment is being performed from one of the allowed branches.