Kevin Powell - Community•5mo ago

need help with hosting a simple website

hi, i am new to hosting projects, i just hosted a simple node + express application on netlify and i seem to be having issues. in my node server.js file i have this app.get("/course/:id", (req, res) => { but when i go to "mynetlifyurl/course/1" i get the netlify page not found error i tried askign gpt and bard for the solution but they aren't helpful

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GSUS•5mo ago

app.get("/course/:id", (req, res) => {
  const courseName = req.params.id;
  const course = courseData.find((course) => course.course == courseName);
  if (!course) {
    res.status(404).json("course not found");
  
  res.render("course", { course });
});

app.get("/course/:id", (req, res) => {
  const courseName = req.params.id;
  const course = courseData.find((course) => course.course == courseName);
  if (!course) {
    res.status(404).json("course not found");
  
  res.render("course", { course });
});

here is the complete endpoint

b1mind•5mo ago

https://vercel.com/guides/using-express-with-vercel

How to Deploy an Express.js Application to Vercel

Learn how to deploy an Express.js application to Vercel using Serverless Functions.

b1mind•5mo ago

Basically it's a pita 🥲 Vercel and Netlify are "serverless“ hosting which means you need to wrap things in serverless functions to use them on their platform. Or find hosting for a nodejs server.

GSUS•5mo ago

Yea that's what I ended up doing, using render instead of netlify

reddogg476•5mo ago

Hey GSUS, I'm not the node expert, but Netlify hosts static sites by default; your code is written to have a node server backend. You'll likely need Netlify Functions in addition to your repository to proceed: https://docs.netlify.com/functions/overview/ --> That way, the express api that's using app.get() can actively listen. --> Otherwise, you'd just add a html page in the project folder ./course/id to navigate.

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need help with hosting a simple website