`push failed: invalid app diff request` when node_modules is in functions folder

MongoDB Atlas App Services & Realm
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I maintain a local git-tracked version of my atlas app services app using App Configuration Files. I’ve been using the mongodb-realm-cli for years to push my changes to my atlas app services app, but the package has since become deprecated. So I decided it was time to transition to using the the new atlas-app-services-cli.

However, I’ve found an issue with the new CLI that wasn’t present with the old one.

In the functions folder of my project, I have a package.json file to maintain my dependencies, as described in Atlas Documentation - External Dependencies. This does seem to work fine when pushing changes with the new CLI. However, if I install the node packages from the package.json on my local machine (and thus it creates a node_modules folder within the functions folder of my configuration files), then when I try to push my changes, it presents the error:

push failed: invalid app diff request.

This is very annoying, since it means I have to delete my node_modules folder every time I want to push my changes. Is this a bug with the CLI? Is there a way around this that doesn’t involve needing to delete my node_modules folder?

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Hi Elias,

Thanks for bringing this up, we checked and were able to confirm that this is a bug with the new CLI so we’ll be working on a fix shortly. For now, if it’s possible to create the node_modules folder somewhere else that’s not within the /functions folder path of your app directory, that would be the main workaround outside of deleting the folder completely.

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Hi Christine,

Thanks for looking into this issue so quickly and confirming that it is in fact a bug. I think I’ll wait for the fix to be released and then transition to the new CLI at that point.

Is there somewhere I should watch so I can know when the fix is released?

Thanks,
Elias

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We don’t have an external tracking tool that you could watch but I’ve made a note that this thread should be updated when we’ve made the fix, so you could get a notification here!

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That works great too, I’ll stay subscribed to this thread. Thanks!