feat: throw error on deploy command if build fails and user has --json option #7367
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serhalp approved these changes Jun 26, 2025
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| ).rejects.toThrow('Error while running build') |
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do we expect the output to be json on failures or no?
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nope don't do that anywhere else
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Summary
When a build fails when a user runs
netlify deploy --jsonit currently fails silently. Behaviour can be seen by running:on a project that has
exit 1as its build command.This PR changes that so we now throw an error like elsewhere in the deploy command, regardless of the
--jsonoption