Expected Behavior:
The full-stack Vite + Express app should serve both API and frontend from the same deployment.

Actual Behavior:

• Build completes with no errors

• Node server starts normally (node dist/index.js)

• API routes return JSON as expected

• Frontend renders blank white page (no 404s, just empty content)

Root Cause :
Static assets built into dist/public/ aren't accessible at runtime. Express looks for them in server/public/, leading to missing index.html and a blank screen.

Attempted Fixes:

• Updated .railwayignore to avoid triggering Caddy

• Tried various nixpacks.toml formats

• Added Procfile (ignored by Nixpacks)

• Set providers explicitly

• Debugged with logging and build commands

Ask for Railway Support:

• Is there a recommended way to handle this file mismatch?

• Should we add a custom cp step to move Vite’s build output to server/public/?

• Or can Railway's build phase be configured to detect and handle this automatically?