Next, you will want to actually detect that the app you are building is a node-js app. In order to do this, you will need to check for a package.json.
Replace exit 1 in the detect script with the following check:
if [[ ! -f package.json ]]; then
exit 100
fi
Your node-js-buildpack/bin/detect script should look like this:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eo pipefail
if [[ ! -f package.json ]]; then
exit 100
fi
Next, rebuild your app with the updated buildpack:
pack build test-node-js-app --path ./node-js-sample-app --buildpack ./node-js-buildpack
You should see the following output:
Previous image with name "test-node-js-app" not found
===> DETECTING
examples/node-js 0.0.1
===> RESTORING
===> BUILDING
---> node-js Buildpack
ERROR: failed to build: exit status 1
ERROR: failed to build: executing lifecycle: failed with status code: 51
Notice that detect now passes because there is a valid package.json in the NodeJS app at node-js-sample-app, but now build fails because it is currently written to error out.
You will also notice that RESTORING now appears in the build output. This step is part of the buildpack lifecycle that looks to see if any previous image builds have layers that the buildpack can re-use. We will get into this topic in more detail later.