package.json generated locally is sometimes ok, but never during build on github

[miszczu-drako]

Current Behavior

I have a brand new nx workspace, a simple node application + express framework.
The app is located is apps folder
There are also 3 libs generated this way:
npx nx generate @nx/node:library --name=my-app-api --directory=libs/my-app/api --importPath=@mtc/my-app-api --projectNameAndRootFormat=as-provided --strict=true --testEnvironment=node --no-interactive

• my-app imports express and my-app-api lib
• my-app-api lib imports my-app-service and my-app-util libs
• my-app-service lib imports pino
• my-app-util lib imports uuid

When I run npx nx run my-app:build locally on my machine, the generated dist/apps/my-app/package.json file in most cases looks like this:

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "4.18.3",
    "pino": "9.5.0",
    "uuid": "11.0.3"
  },
  "main": "./main.js",
  "type": "commonjs"
}

Sometimes express dependency is missing

However when I run the same command in github action https://github.com/miszczu-drako/nx-issue/blob/main/.github/workflows/ci.yml line 39, the generated package.json looks like this in all cases:

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "main": "./main.js",
  "type": "commonjs"
}

Here's a sample of workflow run
https://github.com/miszczu-drako/nx-issue/actions/runs/11902565506/job/33167834974

Expected Behavior

The generated package.json should have all dependencies listed

GitHub Repo

https://github.com/miszczu-drako/nx-issue

Steps to Reproduce

1. just trigger a workflow on github and see the output of cat dist/apps/my-app/package.json

Nx Report

$ npx nx report

 NX   Report complete - copy this into the issue template

Node           : 22.11.0
OS             : win32-x64
Native Target  : x86_64-windows
npm            : 10.9.0

nx                 : 20.1.2
@nx/js             : 20.1.2
@nx/jest           : 20.1.2
@nx/eslint         : 20.1.2
@nx/workspace      : 20.1.2
@nx/devkit         : 20.1.2
@nx/esbuild        : 20.1.2
@nx/eslint-plugin  : 20.1.2
@nx/node           : 20.1.2
typescript         : 5.5.4
---------------------------------------
Registered Plugins:
@nx/eslint/plugin
@nx/jest/plugin

Failure Logs

Package Manager Version

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Operating System

• macOS
• Linux
• Windows
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Additional Information

I think that it broke around nx version 19.1