Deploying a Phoenix application with no brunch to Heroku

Hello, I’m trying to deploy an application with no brunch or HTML to Heroku, however, I’m getting this error:

remote: -----> Building dependencies
remote:        Installing and caching node modules
remote: npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-105-generic
remote: npm ERR! argv "/tmp/build_1dc1c57a9bfafccb285967da792347de/.heroku/node/bin/node" "/tmp/build_1dc1c57a9bfafccb285967da792347de/.heroku/node/bin/npm" "prune"
remote: npm ERR! node v5.3.0
remote: npm ERR! npm  v3.3.12
remote: npm ERR! path /tmp/build_1dc1c57a9bfafccb285967da792347de/package.json
remote: npm ERR! code ENOENT
remote: npm ERR! errno -2
remote: npm ERR! syscall open
remote: 
remote: npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/tmp/build_1dc1c57a9bfafccb285967da792347de/package.json'
remote: npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
remote: npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
remote: npm ERR! enoent 
remote: 
remote: npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
remote: npm ERR!     /tmp/build_1dc1c57a9bfafccb285967da792347de/npm-debug.log
remote:  !     Push rejected, failed to compile Phoenix app.
remote: 
remote:  !     Push failed
remote: Verifying deploy...
remote: 
remote: !       Push rejected to mysterious-sierra-49778.
remote: 
To https://git.heroku.com/mysterious-sierra-49778.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://git.heroku.com/mysterious-sierra-49778.git'

It seems to be a problem with NPM (which I’m not using, of course), I’m following http://www.phoenixframework.org/docs/heroku

What buildpack should I use then? or how could I deploy?

Edit: I have read the buildpack github and seems like should only be used when deploying static assets, still not sure on how to deploy an API.

Remove the phoenix buildpack and instead only use the elixir buildpack.

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Hi, I did what ericmj said using this line:

heroku buildpacks:remove https://github.com/gjaldon/heroku-buildpack-phoenix-static.git