Hello Worlds provides an AppEngine standard version, which doesn't work (yet)

[lukeschaefer]

In appengine/hello-world/standard - it describes how to launch a nodejs app in the standard AppEngine platform. But this doesn't work ("Invalid runtime nodejs8 selected") - and the link to the docs (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/nodejs) 404s. So far, there hasn't been any mention in documentation that nodejs is supported in AppEngine standard.

[lukeschaefer]

Welp - appears I was two days early to trying it out!
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Now-you-can-deploy-your-Node-js-app-to-App-Engine-standard-environment.html

[techieshark]

Note the docs say to use nodejs8 but the code seems to only permit nodejs.

And the error message is a bit confusing (here instead of nodejs I used runtime: reallygooglereally in the app.yaml):

If I try nodejs8 I got this similar error:

"ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) Your application does not satisfy all of the requirements for a runtime of type [nodejs8]. Please correct the errors and try again."

Update:

The above is true for the "flexible" app engine environment (env: flex in app.yaml) . The standard environment allows nodejs8. (See reference for runtime: in App Engine flexible environment app.yaml vs standard environment app.yaml).

[mrwillis]

Yes this is confusing documentation. I'm using flex and I tried nodejs8 then I got some obscure error exactly as above.

[somangshu]

when i set runtime: nodejs the service gets deployed but gives a warning at the beginning that my package.json requires node 8.0

What is the version used by runtime: nodejs with env: flex

[CharlieHess]

What is the version used by runtime: nodejs with env: flex

Looks like it uses the version defined in the engines field in package.json.

[aneesshameed]

For flex env, in app.yaml you need following, Do don't specify the version in app.yaml
runtime: nodejs
env: flex

and in package.json you need to specify the version
"engines": {
"node": "8.x.x"
},

Here are the list of version
8.x.x
^8.0.0
~8
>=6

More details: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/nodejs/runtime