[]: must NOT have additional properties

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Topic summary

Developers encountered a critical error when creating new Shopify apps using the CLI. The error message “: must NOT have additional properties” appeared after running shopify app config link and creating a new app, preventing the app from running or deploying.

Workaround identified:

  • Downgrading to Node.js version 20 temporarily resolved the creation issue for at least one user

Related issue:

  • A separate but potentially connected problem exists where app deployment fails to update scopes properly, even after successful deployment

Current status:

  • The original poster reported the issue resolved itself without any manual intervention
  • The scope update problem remains unaddressed
  • Root cause of the error is unclear, suggesting possible server-side or CLI version issues
Summarized with AI on October 31. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

I’m having this error when trying to create a new app,
ran shopify app config link
created a new app
then the cli crash with:
: must NOT have additional properties

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and then it’s not possible to run or deploy the app

(also, maybe somehow connected, in a different app i tried updating scopes, but after deploy no scope is added, [post here](http://app%20deploy not updating scopes app deploy not updating scopes - Shopify Community))

2

same thing here, it works after downgrading to node 20 but scopes not updating

3

It “magically” resolved on it’s own… without any of my efforts to make a change