application now running on the internet, however build.js is showing up blank in the console. for now I am replacing it with a temporary build file so that js runs on the website. will investigate further.
apparently my views are not being complied into the public folder. I was running into this issue with my main.coffee file not being compiled into the puplic folder either. this inculsion of the temporary build file instead of the actual build file should serve as a temporary solution for accessing my js code