Found the error I was having right after putting this post in. This can be deleted if needed.
As a follow up - is there a way to enable some sort of logging so that one can see what can-serve is doing on the server side?
We don’t have that currently but could add it, what type of information are you looking for?
Perhaps your issues are related to running the pre-release version of donejs?
My original issue was related to a bad URL in my model file. I was hoping there was a mode on can-serve that would output a log of events. My first indication of an error was the error response from the REST server because my URL was bad.