Build/everything works on localhost but function stops existing(?) in netlify

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hi. my site is https://careerpilot20.netlify.app/
in this, i should be able to upload my cv which will be ingested + chunked. then, there’s assistant job search blah blah. the problem is everything works on localhost. but the functions seem to disappear from the live site. for example-

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this worked perfectly on local but now its not found???
there’s the function only-next.js server handler there’s supposed to be a lot more(19 probably).

deploy log:

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2:26:36 AM: ./lib/cv/parse.ts
2:26:36 AM: Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression
2:26:36 AM: Import trace for requested module:
2:26:36 AM: ./lib/cv/parse.ts
2:26:36 AM: ./app/api/cv/upload/route.ts
2:26:36 AM: ./lib/cv/parse.ts
2:26:36 AM: Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression
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2:26:36 AM: ./lib/cv/parse.ts
2:26:36 AM: ./app/api/cv/upload/route.ts
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thank you for reading. my hackathon ends tomorrow. help please. no function logs since there’s no function.

.oh the api directory seems empty.

netlify.toml:

CareerPilot — Netlify configuration

Why this file exists

--------------------

We deploy this app to Netlify (not Vercel). Without a

netlify.toml Netlify still builds the site, but the

Next.js plugin is not wired up and App Router API routes

(e.g. app/api/cv/upload/route.ts) are NOT deployed as

serverless functions — the request falls through to

Netlify’s static-asset handling and returns

<!DOCTYPE html>.... The client then surfaces this as

Unexpected token '<', "<!DOCTYPE "... is not valid JSON

on await res.json().

This file:

1. Registers the @netlify/plugin-nextjs plugin so

the App Router API routes get bundled and deployed

as Netlify Functions.

Blockquote

2. Pins Node 20 (required by pdf-parse@2 and

@google/generative-ai).

3. Disables Next.js telemetry at build time.

Required env vars (set in Netlify UI, NOT in this file):

- NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL

- SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY

- NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY

- CLERK_SECRET_KEY

- GEMINI_API_KEY

- TAVILY_API_KEY

- ADZUNA_APP_ID

- ADZUNA_APP_KEY

---------- Build ----------

build

command = “next build”
publish = “.next”

---------- Functions ----------

directory is the default, declared explicitly so it’s

discoverable in the file rather than implicit. We don’t

set node_bundler — esbuild (the default) handles our

TS imports fine.

functions

directory = “netlify/functions”

Per-function timeout overrides. The default Netlify

sync-function timeout is 10s (free) / 26s (Pro). Our

/api/cv/upload route is intentionally synchronous

(parse + chunk + Gemini embed runs inline) and routinely

takes 15-30s, so we lift the cap to the Pro maximum.

Background functions, when added, can use the 15-min

default without explicit configuration.

functions."app/api/cv/upload"

timeout = 26

---------- Plugins ----------

The Next.js plugin is REQUIRED. It wires App Router API

routes (app/api/**) up as Netlify Functions; without

it, the upload route is not reachable as a function and

the client receives HTML instead of JSON.

\[plugins\]

package = “@netlify/plugin-nextjs”

---------- Environment hints ----------

build.environment

NODE_VERSION = “20”
NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED = “1”