Adding Hosting Error

[Ciara-Cloud]

How did you install the Amplify CLI?

npm install -g @aws-amplify/cli

If applicable, what version of Node.js are you using?

v16.20.2

Amplify CLI Version

12.7.0

What operating system are you using?

Cloud9 running on Amazon Linux 2
NAME="Amazon Linux"
VERSION="2"
ID="amzn"
ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="2"
PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux 2"
ANSI_COLOR="0;33"
CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2"
HOME_URL="https://amazonlinux.com/"
SUPPORT_END="2025-06-30"

Did you make any manual changes to the cloud resources managed by Amplify? Please describe the changes made.

No changes have been made to resources managed by Amplify

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Describe the bug

When adding hosting via Amplify CLI I get error

npm ERR! Missing script: "build"

Comand & Full Error output

$ amplify add hosting
✔ Select the plugin module to execute · Amazon CloudFront and S3
✔ hosting bucket name · mycliapp-bucket
Static webhosting is disabled for the hosting bucket when CloudFront Distribution is enabled.

You can now publish your app using the following command:
Command: amplify publish

$ ~/environment $ amplify publish
✔ Successfully pulled backend environment dev from the cloud.

    Current Environment: dev
    
┌──────────┬───────────────────────┬───────────┬───────────────────┐
│ Category │ Resource name         │ Operation │ Provider plugin   │
├──────────┼───────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────┤
│ Hosting  │ S3AndCloudFront       │ Create    │ awscloudformation │
├──────────┼───────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────┤
│ Function │ MyFirstLambdaFunction │ No Change │ awscloudformation │
├──────────┼───────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────┤
│ Api      │ MyFirstAPI            │ No Change │ awscloudformation │
└──────────┴───────────────────────┴───────────┴───────────────────┘
✔ Are you sure you want to continue? (Y/n) · yes

Deployment completed.
Deployed root stack MyAppFromCLI [ ======================================== ] 4/4
        amplify-myappfromcli-dev-80043 AWS::CloudFormation::Stack     UPDATE_COMPLETE                Tue Oct 17 2023 09:03:27…     
        hostingS3AndCloudFront         AWS::CloudFormation::Stack     CREATE_COMPLETE                Tue Oct 17 2023 09:03:22…     
        functionMyFirstLambdaFunction  AWS::CloudFormation::Stack     UPDATE_COMPLETE                Tue Oct 17 2023 08:59:20…     
        apiMyFirstAPI                  AWS::CloudFormation::Stack     UPDATE_COMPLETE                Tue Oct 17 2023 08:59:22…     
Deployed hosting S3AndCloudFront [ ======================================== ] 4/4
        S3Bucket                       AWS::S3::Bucket                CREATE_COMPLETE                Tue Oct 17 2023 08:59:45…     
        OriginAccessIdentity           AWS::CloudFront::CloudFrontOr… CREATE_COMPLETE                Tue Oct 17 2023 08:59:24…     
        CloudFrontDistribution         AWS::CloudFront::Distribution  CREATE_IN_PROGRESS             Tue Oct 17 2023 08:59:46…     
        PrivateBucketPolicy            AWS::S3::BucketPolicy          CREATE_COMPLETE                Tue Oct 17 2023 08:59:48…     

Deployment state saved successfully.

Hosting endpoint: 

npm ERR! Missing script: "build"
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! To see a list of scripts, run:
npm ERR!   npm run

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/ec2-user/.npm/_logs/2023-10-17T09_03_50_431Z-debug-0.log
frontend build command exited with code 1
🛑 1

Expected behavior

configure hosting

Reproduction steps

amplify-config.txt

Project Identifier

File above attached with commands run

Log output

# Put your logs below this line

[2023-10-17T09_03_50_431Z-debug-0.log](https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-cli/files/12926722/2023-10-17T09_03_50_431Z-debug-0.log)

Additional information

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[ykethan]

Hey @doitwithciara, thank you for reaching out. From the issue, it appears the package.json does not have the build script configured. Additionally, noticed that no Javascript framework was selected on amplify init.
Does the application have a frontend framework?

[ykethan]

closing the issue due to inactivity. please feel free in reaching out to us, we would be happy in diving deeper.

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