`/api*` route not working when having no functions in pages

Hello,
I’m using pages to setup my website.

And I’m building my site with nextjs which supports /api route by default, and after it initializing the project, it comes with pages/api/hello.js and it can be accessed on my local machine when testing/developing, but can’t be accessed after deployed to Cloudflare pages.

Then I tried adding the functions folder to my project( following the documentation), and /api/ route works.
So my assumption is that pages will block route to /api/* even there’s not functions folder in my project and then the built in /api route will fail.

I wish there will be a toggle that says route /api to functions.

To be more clear here’s what works and what doesn’t:

  • nextjs - /pages/api/hello.js : works locally, not working in cf pages.
    • route: [host]/api/hello
  • cf function - /functions/hello.js : works locally( with wrangler) ,works in cf pages.
    • route: [host]/api/hello

By not working I mean the route returns 404.