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Long-billed CurlewOP
The project is a nextjs app dir based project where it has to be hosted on a nodejs server, I've built the code, but i can't wrap my head around which file i should be making the starting point

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Long-billed CurlewOP
@Anay-208
Anay-208
You can also use npm run build and npm start. But still, I'll tell what you need to do
install next and express using 
npm i express next
const express = require('express');
const next = require('next');

const dev = process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production';
const app = next({ dev });
const handle = app.getRequestHandler();

app.prepare().then(() => {
  const server = express();

  server.all('*', (req, res) => {
    return handle(req, res);
  });

  const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;

  server.listen(port, (err) => {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log(`> Ready on http://localhost:${port}`);
  });
});
app.js
"scripts": {
  "dev": "node server.js",
  "build": "next build",
  "start": "NODE_ENV=production node server.js"
}

package.json
Anay-208
@Long-billed Curlew is your issue resolved
@Anay-208 <@898949804024012850> is your issue resolved
Long-billed CurlewOP
It's kindof messed,
Btw can you say if that will reduce any feature of cause jn some performance issues
@Long-billed Curlew The project is a nextjs app dir based project where it has to be hosted on a nodejs server, I've built the code, but i can't wrap my head around which file i should be making the starting point
Ray
you could push the code to the server and install the dependencies, npm run build then npm start to spin it up. Or setup a github workflow to build a standalone output then scp the folder to the server