Nicholai/united-tattoo
1
1
Fork 0
Code Issues 24 Pull Requests Actions 2 Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity
united-tattoo/.specstory/history/2025-10-22_16-12Z-why-didn-t-this-work.md

5.1 KiB
Raw Blame History

Why didn't this work? (2025-10-22 16:12Z)

User (2025-10-22 16:12Z)

Why didn't this work?

Agent (model default, mode Agent)

Looking at the terminal output, I can see the build is failing due to missing environment variables. Let me examine the project structure and configuration to understand what's happening.

Tool use: **read_file** • Read file: /home/nicholai/Documents/dev/united-tattoo/lib/env.ts

Could not find file '/home/nicholai/Documents/dev/united-tattoo/.env.local' in the workspace.

Could not find file /home/nicholai/Documents/dev/united-tattoo/.env.example in the workspace.

Tool use: **list_directory** • Listed directory undefined • **0** results

No results found

Tool use: **glob_file_search** • Searched codebase ".env*" • **1** result in **1** directory

Directory: /home/nicholai/Documents/dev/united-tattoo (1 file)

Now I understand the issue! The build is failing because you're missing the required environment variables. Looking at the error message and the lib/env.ts file, I can see that the application requires several environment variables to be set:

The build failed because these required environment variables are missing:

  1. DATABASE_URL - Database connection string
  2. NEXTAUTH_URL - NextAuth.js base URL
  3. NEXTAUTH_SECRET - NextAuth.js secret key
  4. AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID - AWS/R2 access key
  5. AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - AWS/R2 secret key
  6. AWS_REGION - AWS region
  7. AWS_BUCKET_NAME - S3/R2 bucket name

The application uses Zod validation in lib/env.ts to validate these environment variables at startup, and when they're missing, it throws the error you're seeing.

To fix this, you need to:

  1. Create a .env.local file in your project root with the required variables:
# Database
DATABASE_URL="your_database_url_here"

# Authentication
NEXTAUTH_URL="http://localhost:3000"
NEXTAUTH_SECRET="your_nextauth_secret_here"

# AWS/R2 Storage
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="your_access_key"
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="your_secret_key"
AWS_REGION="your_region"
AWS_BUCKET_NAME="your_bucket_name"

  1. For development, you can use placeholder values or set up the actual services:

    • For DATABASE_URL: Set up a local database or use a cloud database
    • For NEXTAUTH_SECRET: Generate a random string (you can use openssl rand -base64 32)
    • For AWS/R2: Set up Cloudflare R2 or AWS S3 for file storage

  2. Make sure .env.local is in your .gitignore (which it should be by default in Next.js projects)

The reason this happens during the build process is that Next.js tries to collect page data at build time, which includes running API routes that depend on these environment variables.

Would you like me to help you set up the environment variables or create a template .env.local file?

User (2025-10-22 16:12Z)

created my .env.local - still having an issue

Agent (model default, mode Agent)

Great! I can see the build is now working successfully - the Next.js build completed without errors and the OpenNext build finished. The issue now is that wrangler command is not found.

The error bash: wrangler: command not found means that the Cloudflare Wrangler CLI is not installed on your system.

Let me check your package.json to see if it's listed as a dependency:

Tool use: **read_file** • Read file: /home/nicholai/Documents/dev/united-tattoo/package.json

Perfect! I can see that wrangler is listed as a dev dependency (line 139), but it's not installed globally on your system. The issue is that you're trying to run wrangler dev directly, but it should be run through npm/npx.

Here are the solutions:

Option 1: Use npx to run wrangler (Recommended)

npm run pages:build && npx wrangler dev

Option 2: Use the existing npm script Looking at your package.json, you already have a script for this:

npm run dev:wrangler

Option 3: Install wrangler globally

npm install -g wrangler

Option 4: Use the preview command instead

npm run preview

The reason this happens is that wrangler is installed as a local dev dependency in your project, but when you run wrangler dev directly in the terminal, your shell looks for a globally installed version of the command.

I'd recommend using Option 1 or Option 2 since they use the locally installed version of wrangler that matches your project's requirements.

Try running:

npm run pages:build && npx wrangler dev

This should work since the build already completed successfully!