NodeJS 20LTS Oryx deploy via local git failing

[shaunakv1]

Bug Report

• At what date and time did you most recently experience the problem?

• Where did you experience the problem? E.g. Azure Web Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Container Registry, or offline use.
  Azure Webapp

• If your repo is publicly available please share its URL:

• What happened?
  Deployed the application using "git push origin master" with local git deployment enabled on the webapp

• What did you expect or want to happen?

• How can we reproduce it?

• Do you have log output? Please include between the backticks:

 git push azureqa master
Enumerating objects: 5, done.
Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Delta compression using up to 20 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 276 bytes | 276.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Deploy Async
remote: Updating branch 'master'.
remote: Updating submodules.
remote: Preparing deployment for commit id 'b7f9c0cbdc'.
remote: PreDeployment: context.CleanOutputPath False
remote: PreDeployment: context.OutputPath /home/site/wwwroot
remote: Repository path is /home/site/repository
remote: Running oryx build...
remote: Operation performed by Microsoft Oryx, https://github.com/Microsoft/Oryx
remote: You can report issues at https://github.com/Microsoft/Oryx/issues
remote:
remote: Oryx Version: 0.2.20240424.1, Commit: d37b2225a252ab2c04b4726024d047cf01ea1318, ReleaseTagName: 20240424.1
remote:
remote: Build Operation ID: c10ea0222775b9e1
remote: Repository Commit : b7f9c0cbdcf29e8a771dbdb533fd262d3cfa022f
remote: OS Type           : bookworm
remote: Image Type        : githubactions
remote:
remote: Detecting platforms...
remote: Error: Oops... An unexpected error has occurred.
remote: Error: Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: Error reading JObject from JsonReader. Current JsonReader item is not an object: StartArray. Path '', line 1, position 1.
remote:    at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Load(JsonReader reader, JsonLoadSettings settings)
remote:    at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(String json, JsonLoadSettings settings)
remote:    at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(String json)
remote:    at Microsoft.Oryx.Detector.ParserHelper.ParseJsonFile(ISourceRepo sourceRepo, String filePath) in /usr/oryx/src/Detector/ParserHelper.cs:line 86
remote:    at Microsoft.Oryx.Detector.Hugo.HugoDetector.IsHugoJsonFile(ISourceRepo sourceRepo, String[] subPaths) in /usr/oryx/src/Detector/Hugo/HugoDetector.cs:line 229
remote:    at Microsoft.Oryx.Detector.Hugo.HugoDetector.IsHugoApp(ISourceRepo sourceRepo, String& appDirectory) in /usr/oryx/src/Detector/Hugo/HugoDetector.cs:line 157
remote:    at Microsoft.Oryx.Detector.Hugo.HugoDetector.Detect(DetectorContext context) in /usr/oryx/src/Detector/Hugo/HugoDetector.cs:line 49
remote:    at Microsoft.Oryx.BuildScriptGenerator.Hugo.HugoPlatform.Detect(RepositoryContext context) in /usr/oryx/src/BuildScriptGenerator/Hugo/HugoPlatform.cs:line 61
remote:    at Microsoft.Oryx.BuildScriptGenerator.DefaultPlatformsInformationProvider.GetPlatformsInfo(RepositoryContext context) in /usr/oryx/src/BuildScriptGenerator/DefaultPlatformsInformationProvider.cs:line 53
remote:    at Microsoft.Oryx.BuildScriptGenerator.DefaultBuildScriptGenerator.GenerateBashScript(BuildScriptGeneratorContext context, String& script, List`1 checkerMessageSink) in /usr/oryx/src/BuildScriptGenerator/DefaultBuildScriptGenerator.cs:line 75
remote:    at Microsoft.Oryx.BuildScriptGeneratorCli.BuildScriptGenerator.TryGenerateScript(String& generatedScript, Exception& exception) in /usr/oryx/src/BuildScriptGeneratorCli/BuildScriptGenerator.cs:line 63
remote:    at Microsoft.Oryx.BuildScriptGeneratorCli.BuildCommand.Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider, IConsole console) in /usr/oryx/src/BuildScriptGeneratorCli/Commands/BuildCommand.cs:line 278
remote:    at Microsoft.Oryx.BuildScriptGeneratorCli.CommandBase.OnExecute(IConsole console) in /usr/oryx/src/BuildScriptGeneratorCli/Commands/CommandBase.cs:line 87
remote:
remote: Generating summary of Oryx build
remote: Parsing the build logs
remote: Found 0 issue(s)
remote:
remote: Build Summary :
remote: ===============
remote: Errors (0)
remote: Warnings (0)
remote:
remote: Deployment Failed. deployer =  deploymentPath =
remote: Deployment failed
remote: Error - Changes committed to remote repository but deployment to website failed.

Here's my package.json which looks right

{
  "name": "api",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Node.js API",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node app.js",
    "dev": "nodemon --inspect app.js -e html,css,js,sql,json",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "cors": "^2.8.5",
    "express": "^4.19.2",
    "helmet": "^7.1.0",
    "morgan": "^1.10.0",
    "winston": "^3.13.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "nodemon": "^3.1.0",
    "reload": "^3.2.1"
  }
}