You're looking to deploy your student portal with Netlify! That's a great choice for the Next.js frontend.

It's important to understand that Netlify is primarily designed for static sites and frontend applications. While it can host your Next.js client, your Node.js/Express backend server will need to be deployed separately to a different platform (like Railway, Heroku, or even Vercel as a dedicated API project).

For your Next.js client, the build command is npm run build within the client directory.

I've updated the DEPLOYMENT.md file to include instructions for deploying the client to Netlify and clarified the backend deployment options. I've also removed the vercel.json file as it was specific to a Vercel monorepo setup that won't apply if your client is on Netlify.

Here is the complete project with all file contents provided:

To configure the generation, complete these steps:

It looks like you're encountering an ENOENT: no such file or directory, uv_cwd error when running an npm command. This typically means that the directory from which you're trying to run the command no longer exists or is not accessible by your terminal.

Given your project structure, it's crucial to run npm commands from the correct directory. For example, if you're trying to run npm run client, you should be in the root directory of your monorepo (student-portal-mern). If you're trying to run npm install or npm run dev specifically for the client, you should cd client first.

Please ensure you are in the correct directory before executing npm commands.

Here is the complete project with all file contents, including the updated DEPLOYMENT.md, client/next.config.js, and the package.json files:

To configure the generation, complete these steps: