I have a react front end - which seems to be working and a express backend. The backend project is deploying but crashes. It seems to me that it is not loading a file in the root directory. I am attaching the code for loading the file and the code I added to the vercel.json file. Is there something…

Hi @hedkace , I was able to get your app working ( try here ) with the following changes: move the index.js in api/index.js file remove legacy options from the vercel.json update index.js to correctly handle file paths import express from "express"; import { parseFile } from "tmx-parser"; import { j…

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pawlean (Pauline P. Narvas) March 19, 2025, 2:24pm 3

Hi, @hedkace! Welcome to the Vercel Community

Nothing immediately jumped out to me as an issue, could you share a minimal reproducible example with us?

I’ll also share this thread in case it’s helpful!

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