Hi,

I am using Vercel to host a project developed in NodeJS. In this project, I created the following commands in my package.json:

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"scripts": {
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    "start": "node --watch app.js",
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    "dev": "npm start & webpack serve --config webpack.dev.js",
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    "build": "webpack --config webpack.prod.js"
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}

In the 'build' command, I need run the webpack.prod.js file, which among other things, copies my static files and places them in the 'public' folder of my project, which is the folder where I direct my static files using Express.

app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')))

And this is my vercel.json file:

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{
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	"version": 2,
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	"builds": [
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		{
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			"src": "app.js",
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			"use": "@vercel/node"
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		}
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	],
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	"routes": [
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		{
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			"src": "/(.*)",
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			"dest": "app.js"
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		}
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	]
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}

This project works perfectly in a local environment, but when I upload it to GitHub and run it on Vercel, it doesn't load any static files.

My question is whether I need to run the 'build' command locally before uploading my project to GitHub, or if Vercel is supposed to handle this and generate the static files?

What could be happening?