# Deploying Nodejs and Express.js apps in

**URL:** <https://answers.netlify.com/t/deploying-nodejs-and-express-js-apps-in/84215>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** deployment\
**Created:** [January 29, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/deploying-nodejs-and-express-js-apps-in/84215 "2023-01-29T15:09:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![mangesh1511](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@mangesh1511](https://answers.netlify.com/u/mangesh1511)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/deploying-nodejs-and-express-js-apps-in/84215/1 "2023-01-29T15:09:58Z")

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I want to deploy the Node.js and Express.js application which did not have any use of the database and just external api call fetch and update the data I want to know how I can deploy the app I have seen the article about express.js deploys but couldn’t get much from it .Thanks in advance for help.  
I want to know what changes I have to make in my directory structure and how should I create the netlify.toml file

Here’s my project(app) directory overview:  
–.env  
–.gitignore  
–node\_modules  
–views  
–index.ejs  
–styles.css

–backend.js

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**Author:** ![hrishikesh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/netlify/user_avatar/answers.netlify.com/hrishikesh/32/74607_2.png) [@hrishikesh](https://answers.netlify.com/u/hrishikesh)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/deploying-nodejs-and-express-js-apps-in/84215/2 "2023-01-29T16:33:12Z")

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Netlify doesn’t support Express Apps. You would have to use Netlify Functions. Take a look at this example:

> **[netlify-file-browser/netlify/functions at v2 · Hrishikesh-K/netlify-file-browser](https://github.com/Hrishikesh-K/netlify-file-browser/tree/v2/netlify/functions)**
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> v2/netlify/functions