Microsoft Azure deployment issue with Rails 5.2 app including package.json

Question

When deploying my Rails 5.2 application on Azure, the deployment process believes the application is a nodejs app instead of Rails and skips the bundle install. After removing the package.json, the Azure deployment ran the bundle install and the application started up properly. I want to include React and therefore package.json in my application. How can I get Azure to still treat my application deployment as a Rails app?