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?