How to prevent some files from being deployed as vercel functions

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Summary

I have one function: api/src/index.ts which starts an apollo server. There are a lot of of other files in the api folder as well, but I do not want them to be deployed as functions.

vercel.json

  "functions": {
    "api/src/index.ts": {
      "includeFiles": "api/src/index.ts"
    }
  },

yet:

What am I missing? How do I get these files to stop being deployed as functions?

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[wwwdepot]

read the docs https://vercel.com/docs/project-configuration

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[sarink]

To future readers (who obviously already scoured the docs before coming to github), I couldn't find any possible way to do this. Despite includeFiles being set (and there being no excludeFiles flag), vercel will still always automatically deploy any js/ts file inside the api directory, and absolutely none of this is configurable. I did however discover that any directories beginning with an underscore will be ignored and not deployed as functions.

So, it's pretty annoying and silly, but you can place your server at api/index.ts, and the rest of your src/helper files in a folder like api/_src.

I can't understand why vercel is so opinionated and why vercel.json would not allow users to customize this kind of thing