It now works locally for both the front-end and backend, however when deploying to vercel cloud it’s giving a 404 for both the front-end and our health API 
I thought it was working but only locally now, i will take a closer look and hopefully try to fix deployments.
Also I tried pasting in your vercel.json which results in a 500 error on the front-end, and still a 404 on the health API.
now it’s kind of one or the other, i can get the functions/front end to run locally OR if i make some code changes i can get them to work in the vercel deploy, but not at the same time lol.
it’s just still not detecting those functions when it has the +api extension in vercel. only when i have local running does +api get detected.