Socket.io.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()

[nathanmartin]

@PhovDeWae Where are you hosting the socket server?

If you’re trying to host it on Netlify that will be your problem, see my answer to someone else here:

Site deploys fine, but backend/database data is not loading

@ketz555 Checking the repository that you’ve linked to, I can see that npm run start:backend executes nodemon server.js and the server.js file starts an Express server. You won’t be able to do this on Netlify, as it’s not how the hosting environment is intended to be used. The static portion of your application builds via CI and deploys to CDN, and then any runtime server side functions (or API’s) that you integrate with must either be running elsewhere, or be implemented via Serverless functi…