Hi, I’m trying to deploy an app React app created with create-react-app. It keeps failing after it tries to run the build command. See log below. It seems like it not able to find the .svg file even though it is there. Letter casing is correct and it works locally. Anybody know why it is Failing e…

[image] stevenA: 8:29:45 PM: 8:29:45 PM: ./src/components/header/header.component.jsx 8:29:45 PM: Cannot find file ‘…/…/assets/crown.svg’ in ‘./src/components/header’. 8:29:45 PM: npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE Howdy, it’s definitely related to us not being able to find the file …

Hi, I ended up just manually uploading the build file and it worked. I still don’t know why it’s failing when I try to run the build and upload through GitHub. If anyone else has this problem, a work around is to run the build locally and then just manually upload the folder instead of using GitHub…

hmm. that’s super odd! there should be a way to get this working via CI. If you run in to this problem again, do let us know and we can poke at it some more.

Hi, I have the same problem 9:34:08 PM: ./src/index.js 9:34:08 PM: Cannot find file ‘./app’ in ‘./src’. Here is how I do my import import {App} from ‘./app’; I’ve tried to add the node and npm version I’m using in a netlify.toml file but it still doesn’t work. Uploading the build folder w…

I found the issue. For whatever reason, git was keeping track of app.js as App.js. Thus, the file uploaded via Github to Netlify was nammed App.js. To solve this I did: git rm -r --cached src/App.js, git add src/app.js and it worked.

ahh! the issue was case. more on that here: [image] [Support Guide] Netlify app builds locally but fails on deploy (case sensitivity) Support Guides Last updated by Netlify Support: July 2025 Are you struggling to understand why your project runs locally but …

React Deploy Failed @ npm run build error code ELIFECYCLE errno 1 Cannot find file

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ahh! the issue was case. more on that here:

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React Deploy Failed @ npm run build error code ELIFECYCLE errno 1 Cannot find file

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