The specified deps.json '$$$' does not exist

runtimes section in project.json looks suspicious. As soon as you build for one runtime only - there is no need to use it.

Remove it and rewrite dependency from "Microsoft.NETCore.App":"1.1.0" to "Microsoft.NETCore.App": { "type": "platform", "version": "1.1.0" }.

This will change your app deployment model from "self-contained" (can run on specific platform even without framework) to "framework-dependent" (may run on any platform with framework installed). Details are here.