I have an extremely simple test express app. I have a simple GET route setup:

app.get('/ping', (req, res) => {
  try {
    res.status(200).json({ message: 'pong' })
  }
  catch(err) {
    res.status(500).json({ error: 'something went wrong' })
  }
})

This code builds fine, but causes the deployment to hang indefinitely (it never starts my server, and no logs are provided).

If I remove the try catch, things work fine (server is started, everything is successful, I can call API):

app.get('/ping', (req, res) => {
    return res.status(200).json({ message: 'pong' })
})

I know the try catch doesn't do anything in this situation, but I will want the try catches for when I implement my actual app, and this is a pretty common pattern, so I'm unsure why that would cause things to go so badly that the deployment can't even start. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

PS: I've tried adding async, removing the return statement, etc. -- all same result; work fine without try catch, hang deployment with no logs with try catch. Everything works fine locally.