What BrunchJS docs don't clearly tell is that after the assets have been built for production do I need to have Node on the production server? Although this confusion is most likely because these are new tech for me.
If you're running nginx (or any other web server), then nodejs is not required to just serve these assets.
Simply add a route, in your webserver, to the assets folder that you compiled.
Eg., In Nginx
server {
...
...
location /assets {
alias /path/to/your/compiled/assets;
}
}