Hey,

Do you have any errors or exit codes from the crashes?

Have you tried adding each individually as a separate services?

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I dont get why the log is showning the backend error

Node.js v22.22.0

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1386

throw err;

^

Error: Cannot find module '/app/packages/backend/dist/main'

at Function._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1383:15)

at defaultResolveImpl (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1025:19)

at resolveForCJSWithHooks (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1030:22)

at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1192:37)

at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:328:14)

at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:237:24)

at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:171:5)

at node:internal/main/run_main_module:36:49 {

code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',

requireStack: []

}

/app/packages/backend:

 ERR_PNPM_RECURSIVE_RUN_FIRST_FAIL  @harasfacil/backend@1.0.0 start:prod: NODE_ENV=production node dist/main

At this moment they are separated yes

Did you double check your starting command? Is it pointing to the correct place?

Make sure it's building and that dist/ is created.

That is the point

I dont find any doc about it

Why do i need a start command for a react frontend once build its a static hosting

Thanks

Well the problem is that railway is detecting the backend and thinks it is a node/backend service.

Railway uses containers, it does not serve static files.

An option would be to use Bun/Vite with react.

Im using vite on my fe projet

Well, i will try this since ita my first mononrepo deploy

My other fe project works correctly without these hacks but its a dedicated repo for each be and fe

.

Well, I am not sure monorepos work in railway, at least you can't run everything in a single service.

So, you'd have to have 3 separate services, each with a modified start/build command for each specific thing.

In a pnpm workspace, Firstly, you need to set the Root Directory to / or leave it empty in your service settings. Then you should use custom build/start commands.

ExampleFrontend Service:
Build Command:pnpm build --filter=frontend where "frontend" is the name specified in frontend/package.json file.
Start Command: pnpm start --filter=frontend

Do the same for the backend service.

Note that you should have build/start scripts in backend/package.json and frontend/package.json .
I host a pnpm monorepo here on Railway, and it works with no problems. Hope this helps.

You can check this Railway guide on how to deploy a monorepo as well.

the start command worked, Ive just not done that before because in my mind I would not have any reason to do so

but anyways thanks a lot for your help