Deploying vuejs application to server, “project.key” error

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Deploying Vue.js Application to Ubuntu Server

Hello all,
I am working on deploying my first Vue.js application, I have everything working on my dev machine, I created a server and now I am pushing it up to the server and I get this error when I run :

npm run build
Error loading /var/www/html/vue/vue.config.js Error ENOENT: no such file or directory open /root/.aspnet/https/vue.key

This is a vue.js project being built in Visual Studio 2022. with a .Net 6 API for the backend. I have everything working, just deploying it seems to be my current issue I am running into.

vue.config.js

const fs = require('fs')
const path = require('path')
const webpack = require('webpack')

const baseFolder =
    process.env.APPDATA !== undefined && process.env.APPDATA !== ''
        ? `${process.env.APPDATA}/ASP.NET/https`
        : `${process.env.HOME}/.aspnet/https`;

const certificateArg = process.argv.map(arg => arg.match(/--name=(?<value>.+)/i)).filter(Boolean)[0];
const certificateName = certificateArg ? certificateArg.groups.value : "ServiceVue";

if (!certificateName) {
    console.error('Invalid certificate name. Run this script in the context of an npm/yarn script or pass --name=<<app>> explicitly.')
    process.exit(-1);
}

const certFilePath = path.join(baseFolder, `${certificateName}.pem`);
const keyFilePath = path.join(baseFolder, `${certificateName}.key`);

module.exports = {
 //   extends: ['plugin:vue/base'],
 //   rules: {
 //       'vue/script-setup-uses-vars': 'warning',
    //},
    devServer: {
        disableHostCheck: true,
        https: {
            key: fs.readFileSync(keyFilePath),
            cert: fs.readFileSync(certFilePath),
        },
        proxy: {
            '^/weatherforecast': {
                target: 'https://localhost:5001/'
            }
        },
        port: 5002
    }

}

would creating my own self signed cert possibly fix this?

What I have tried:

I have tried changing the config file and when I publish it on my dev machine everything works without any errors. When I do npm run build on my prod server I get this error about .key (certificate I'm assuming) missing.