I can't figure out how to start my server once it's deployed

Hi, @nathan.g.bowman. The short answer can be found in the following support guide:

To summarize that guide above:

  • You cannot run a server at Netlify.

There are exception to this rule above. For example, if the code in question can be coaxed to run on AWS Lambda you can deploy the server using Netlify Functions. However, I don’t know this framework at all so I don’t know if that is possible or not.

If not (which I expect is the case), you can deploy the front-end to Netlify and then deploy the server to another service like https://www.heroku.com/.

If there are other questions about this, please let us know.