Failed to export the project

[radokristof]

When trying to publish the first update, I receive a Failed to export the project error:

 pnpm dlx eoas publish --branch production
✔ Is this the correct URL of your self-hosted update server? https://ota.REDACTED … yes
✔ ✅ Runtime versions resolved
✔ ✅ Cleanup completed
✖ ❌ Failed to export the project, Error: npx expo export --output-dir dist exited with non-zero code: 1

If I try to run the export command directly, it always fails wit the following stacktrace:

❯ pnpm dlx expo export --output-dir dist
env: load .env
env: export DISABLE_CODE_SIGNING
⚙️ Configuring Android signing...
⚙️ Configuring Android signing...
⚙️ Configuring Android signing...
⚙️ Configuring Android signing...
⚙️ Configuring Android signing...
React Compiler enabled
Starting Metro Bundler

iOS Bundled 12731ms node_modules/.pnpm/expo-router@57.0.4_374e32e4c4284f810767bd3b8a2e74d2/node_modules/expo-router/entry.js (5283 modules)
Android Bundled 22374ms node_modules/.pnpm/expo-router@57.0.4_374e32e4c4284f810767bd3b8a2e74d2/node_modules/expo-router/entry.js (5404 modules)
Static rendering is enabled. Learn more
Error: Unable to resolve module expo-router from /Users/radokristof/Library/pnpm/store/v11/links/@expo/router-server/57.0.3/ade92ff190a8a22e8ab66d36f77987a6303f9b40bdc33c32f2ceb9aaee3ae0b1/node_modules/@expo/router-server/build/static/renderStaticContent.js: expo-router could not be found within the project or in these directories:
  ../../../Library/pnpm/store/v11/links/@expo/router-server/57.0.3/ade92ff190a8a22e8ab66d36f77987a6303f9b40bdc33c32f2ceb9aaee3ae0b1/node_modules/@expo/router-server/node_modules
  ../../../Library/pnpm/store/v11/links/@expo/router-server/57.0.3/ade92ff190a8a22e8ab66d36f77987a6303f9b40bdc33c32f2ceb9aaee3ae0b1/node_modules
  48 | require("@expo/metro-runtime");
  49 | const Font = __importStar(require("expo-font/build/server"));
> 50 | const expo_router_1 = require("expo-router");
     |                                ^
  51 | const _ctx_1 = require("expo-router/_ctx");
  52 | const head_1 = __importDefault(require("expo-router/head"));
  53 | const static_1 = require("expo-router/internal/static");

Import stack:

 ../../../Library/pnpm/store/v11/links/@expo/router-server/57.0.3/ade92ff190a8a22e8ab66d36f77987a6303f9b40bdc33c32f2ceb9aaee3ae0b1/node_modules/@expo/router-server/build/static/renderStaticContent.js
 | import "expo-router"

 ../../../Library/pnpm/store/v11/links/@expo/router-server/57.0.3/ade92ff190a8a22e8ab66d36f77987a6303f9b40bdc33c32f2ceb9aaee3ae0b1/node_modules/@expo/router-server/node/render.js
 | import "@expo/router-server/build/static/renderStaticContent"

 
 | import "/Users/radokristof/Library/pnpm/store/v11/links/@expo/router-server/57.0.3/ade92ff190a8a22e8ab66d36f77987a6303f9b40bdc33c32f2ceb9aaee3ae0b1/node_modules/@expo/router-server/node/render.js"

[axelmarciano]

Hi! This isn't an issue with your install, and actually not an eoas bug either. Your log shows the iOS and Android bundles compiled fine (5283/5404 modules), so expo-router resolves correctly from your project.

The export only fails at the web static rendering step (web.output: "static" in your app config, which is the default for expo-router templates).

1. If you don't need web: remove web from platforms in your app.json (or set "web": { "output": "single" } to at least skip static rendering). Note that the web export is never used for OTA anyway: expo-updates only serves iOS/Android, so it's wasted work during publish.
2. The classic pnpm fix recommended by Expo: add node-linker=hoisted to your .npmrc, delete node_modules, and run pnpm install again.
3. Optionally run npx expo install --fix to realign @expo/router-server with your expo-router version.

[radokristof]

Thank you very much for your help @axelmarciano! You were right, the "web" section was added to app.json even though I do not publish to web at all.
For further reference, removing the web object from app.json was not enough for me. I had to add the platforms array and specify ios, android there.