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App Platform: Simple Express App Only Serves Static file Instead of Res.Json?

Posted on April 21, 2022

I’m a pretty new to Digital Ocean and App Platform, so hopefully my question is simple (sorry in advance for any stupidity!).

I have launched a NodeJS Express App on App Platform as WebService component for my back-end. I seem to have problems with my routes: “/users/get-screenshots” and “users/update-screenshots

In those routes I have a simple res.json call that sends a JSON object to test these endpoints.

However, when I navigate to those routes on my deployed app, I never get the res.json data but instead just get served my static file.

Can anyone help me figure out why?



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