[Bug?]: initial deploy to Vercel not working with latest (rw 7.0.6, node 20)

[jason-curtis]

What's not working?

Initial deploy to Vercel fails. Error log: https://gist.github.com/jason-curtis/c922f9cf3b5520e9d2d418667555642b

Key section of the log appears to be:

[14:27:06.339] $ /vercel/path0/node_modules/.bin/rw data-migrate up
[14:27:07.038] Installing plugin "@redwoodjs/cli-data-migrate"...
[14:27:08.101] error Running this command will add the dependency to the workspace root rather than the workspace itself, which might not be what you want - if you really meant it, make it explicit by running this command again with the -W flag (or --ignore-workspace-root-check).
[14:27:08.101] info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.
[14:27:08.116] Error: Command failed with exit code 1: yarn add -D @redwoodjs/[email protected]

How do we reproduce the bug?

• Create a new redwood project w/ yarn create redwood-app whatever
• push it to a github repo
• Start a new deploy from that project on Vercel
  • it will fail the first time until you go into project settings and set node version to 20 (expected, I guess?)
• Start a redeploy
• deploy fails with the error above.

What's your environment? (If it applies)

(this info may not be relevant since the error is happening on vercel but I ran `yarn rw info` locally)

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.15 Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS 22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
    Shell: 5.1.16 - /bin/bash
  Binaries:
    Node: 20.11.1 - /tmp/xfs-40a4659e/node
    Yarn: 4.1.0 - /tmp/xfs-40a4659e/yarn
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 121.0.6167.139
  npmPackages:
    @redwoodjs/core: 7.0.6 => 7.0.6 
    @redwoodjs/project-config: 7.0.6 => 7.0.6

Are you interested in working on this?

• I'm interested in working on this

[jason-curtis]

Interestingly, if I deploy manually using a Github Action with these steps it works fine:

      - name: Install Vercel CLI
        run: npm install --global vercel@canary
      - name: Pull Vercel Environment Information
        run: vercel pull --yes --environment=production --token=${{ secrets.VERCEL_TOKEN }}
      - name: Build Project Artifacts
        run: vercel build --token=${{ secrets.VERCEL_TOKEN }} --prod
      - name: Deploy Project Artifacts to Vercel
        run: vercel deploy --prebuilt --token=${{ secrets.VERCEL_TOKEN }} --prod

But if I use this pre-built GH action, I get the Running this command will add the dependency to the workspace root error:

      - name: Deploy to Vercel
        uses: amondnet/vercel-action@v20
        with:
          vercel-token: ${{ secrets.VERCEL_TOKEN }}
          github-comment: true
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          # Include a --prod flag for Vercel CLI, but leave empty for preview deploys
          vercel-args: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' && '--prod' || '' }}
          vercel-org-id: ${{ secrets.VERCEL_ORG_ID }}
          vercel-project-id: ${{ secrets.VERCEL_PROJECT_ID }}

I'm not sure if that helps figure out the root cause, but at least there's a workaround that seems to do the trick.

[Tobbe]

Thanks for providing a workaround @jason-curtis

I'll have someone on the team take a look at this issue that's more familiar with both data-migrate and Vercel deploys than I am. They, or I, will get back to you as soon as we've had a chance to investigate.

[jtoar]

Hey @jason-curtis I can reproduce and I'm pretty sure I know what's at play. Will circle back once I confirm.

[jtoar]

@jason-curtis I think you have to enable Corepack in Vercel's build container via ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_COREPACK=1:

https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/configure-a-build#corepack

I should update the setup command to call this out.

[jason-curtis]

Ahh, I see. I've had to enable corepack in other cases as well- eg. when running tests or lint in CI, my GH actions steps look something like this:

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Enable corepack, which makes yarn work (https://yarnpkg.com/corepack)
        run: corepack enable
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: '20'
          cache: 'yarn'
      - name: Install Dependencies
        run: yarn install
      - name: Run Tests (API side)
        run: yarn rw test api --no-watch

There might be some other docs we could update to clarify that corepack needs to be enabled.

[ahaywood]

I should update the setup command to call this out.

@jtoar Are you working on updating the set up command?

🙋‍♀️ Otherwise, I'm happy to update the docs.

[jason-curtis]

Note there's an open issue and PR upstream for a more straightforward/robust way to enable corepack: actions/setup-node#531

[jtoar]

@ahaywood not working on this go for it

[thedavidprice]

@rafavalerio just to make sure, when you run yarn on your project locally, are there any changes to your yarn.lock that need to be checked in to git? If not, we'll need to dig a bit deeper here.

[rafavalerio]

@rafavalerio just to make sure, when you run yarn on your project locally, are there any changes to your yarn.lock that need to be checked in to git? If not, we'll need to dig a bit deeper here.

Hi @thedavidprice, the reason was locally I was using Yarn 1.x and having Yarn 4.x on Vercel! All solved now!

[thedavidprice]

fixed by #10355