🐛 Bug Report: Appwrite not installing modules in environment for CLI function deployment

[DougieBoi227]

👟 Reproduction steps

Create the basic template function

appwrite init function
? What would you like to name your function? My Awesome Function
? What ID would you like to have for your function? unique()
? What runtime would you like to use? Node.js (node-16.0)
✓ Success 

Deploy it

appwrite deploy function
? Which functions would you like to deploy? My Awesome Function (6501316f90f0917826da)
ℹ Info Deploying function My Awesome Function ( 6501316f90f0917826da )
ℹ Info Ignoring files using configuration from appwrite.json
✓ Success Deployed My Awesome Function ( 6501316f90f0917826da )
✓ Success Deployed 1 functions

Execute function from dashboard
Go to: Functions > My Awesome Function > Execute now > Execute (with default path="/" method="GET")

NOTE: I have tried creating a function with Node and Python and they both fail in similar ways. Python can't find the appwrite package like it wasn't pip installed.

👍 Expected behavior

Function return:
If envs are set
{areDevelopersAwesome: true}
If envs are not set
"Environment variables are not set. Function cannot use Appwrite SDK."

👎 Actual Behavior

STAUS FAILED:

Could not load code file.
Error: Cannot find module 'node-appwrite'
Require stack:

• /usr/local/server/src/function/src/index.js
• /usr/local/server/src/server.js
  at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:940:15)
  at Module.Hook._require.Module.require (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/require-in-the-middle/index.js:81:25)
  at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:93:18)
  at Object. (/usr/local/server/src/function/src/index.js:1:13)
  at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1108:14)
  at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1137:10)
  at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:988:32)
  at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:828:14)
  at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1012:19)
  at Module.Hook._require.Module.require (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/require-in-the-middle/index.js:101:39)

🎲 Appwrite version

1.4.x

💻 Operating system

Linux

🧱 Your Environment

CLI

appwrite -v
2.0.2

Appwrite version [1.4.2]

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this issue has been raised before?

• I checked and didn't find similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Code of Conduct

[Inovvia]

I also experienced this. As a work around I added commands here.

[DougieBoi227]

Yep, that worked. Just a simple npm install added there was enough. Thanks!

[DougieBoi227]

Unfortunately, that every time you redeploy from CLI that command gets removed. I'm guessing there's some confit with the appwrite.json config. Even when I explicitly add:

{
            "$id": "6501316f90f0917826da",
            "name": "My Awesome Function",
            "runtime": "node-16.0",
            "path": "functions/My Awesome Function",
            "entrypoint": "src/index.js",
            "ignore": [
                "node_modules",
                ".npm"
            ],
            "execute": [],
            "events": [],
            "schedule": "",
            "timeout": 15,
            "commands": "npm install"
}

It still goes away.

[stnguyen90]

@DougieBoi227, would you please upgrade your Appwrite CLI? You should be using 4.0.0 with Appwrite 1.4

[DougieBoi227]

That was it. Upgrading fixed it. Thanks!