Are you able to share this GitHub repo?

for sure bro bro https://github.com/ECdub27/LFC

This project has quite an unoptimized project structure, let me see if I can fix it.

for sure let me know how I can fix it

I'll see about making a PR, and then I will follow up with deployment instructions.

thank you let me know if theres anything you need from my end

You were trying to run your frontend and backend in one service, if not done properly this can cause a lot of issues, you unfortunately were not doing it properly, so I took the easier route and configured your service as an isolated mono repo.

Here is the PR with those changes - https://github.com/ECdub27/LFC/pull/1

To deploy this isolated mono-repo you will need a Railway project with two Railway services in the same project -

A service named Frontend and a service named Backend

Both of these services will deploy from the same repo.

The Backend service will have its root directory set to /backend

The Frontend service will have its root directory set to /frontend

The root directory setting is found via the service's settings page.

On the Frontend service, you will need a VITE_BACKEND_URL service variable set to https://${{Backend.RAILWAYPUBLICDOMAIN}}

Ask if you need clarification on anything that I didn't already cover.

so I would set the vite backend url to the proxy i set?

Nope, the proxy is not involved in anyway at all, In the message above I said what to set that variable to.

how am I going to set up two different services? I merged all the changes but I guess I am having a hard time figuring out where These two apply?

As mentioned, To deploy this isolated mono-repo you will need a Railway project with two Railway services in the same project, Both of these services will deploy from the same repo.

okay so I am going to need to set the path for each, I just dont know where that setting is… I have not use railway before

wait hold tight I think I understand

what is the difference between the keep unexposed, add domain and custom domain?

The root directory setting is in the service settings.

You want to be able to access both of these publicly so you will want to add a domain.

yes, this was helpful, I am getting a cors error i suspect its from the env variable not being sent right. I confused on the fix because I am setting the url to where my port is

Please don't modify the files I have created such as the .env.local file, I had set it up correctly and you changed it to a completely wrong value. Revert the changes, please.

Give the docs for the cors middleware a read -

https://expressjs.com/en/resources/middleware/cors.html

I have the right cors configuration…. ill just dig on it thanks a ton Brody!

I have the right cors configuration

After looking at your code, you do not, please read the docs page I sent.

Additionally, please revert the changes you have made to the .env.local file.