Issues with functions routing with Nuxt.js

So I've been building out an API on pages using functions by connecting a git repo with the following structure

functions
├── ping.js
└── index.js

functions
├── ping.js
└── index.js

When I deploy it I can send a get request to

mydomain.pages.dev/ping

mydomain.pages.dev/ping

and it will respond with

{ "msg": "pong"}

{ "msg": "pong"}

I want to deploy a Nuxt font end to this

mydomain.pages.dev

mydomain.pages.dev

and have all the routes defined in my

functions

functions

folder like

/ping

/ping

be considered API requests by the router.

But when I deploy a Nuxt project with the

functions

functions

folder included, Nuxt overrides all of the routes in

folders

folders

and just redirects the page to