Why does Heroku fail to detect Node.js buildpack?

Question

I git cloned a Node.js application (the version specified in the package.json being 4.1.2 and that of my local machine being 6.2.2) an

Answer 1

I run into the same issue and tried everything, eventually realized no file would commit because they were already committed and pushed to the github repository. So you need to do the following:

• Remove old git. folder:

rm -rf .git

• Create new git:

git init

• Add all project files:

git add .

• Commit:

git commit -m “commit name”

• Creat new heroku application:

heroku create

• Push code to master:

git push heroku master

This worked for me.