WSL unable to run express server while developing a mern stack app - reactjs

Question

I am a software engineering student on WSL. To start my development I typically run two different commands. npm start for the dev server and for the express server I run nodemon server. However, I am getting so many different errors that I don't know exactly where to start. The server worked until recently when I incorporated passport, jwt, passport_jwt, for user authentication. I was following along in class and even tried git cloning down the teachers repository to see if the error was on my side(like my code). However, not even that seemed to solve my issue. I got it to run exactly once. In that instance, the the options in my package.json read as follows:
"options": {
"allowedHosts": ["localhost", ".localhost"],
"proxy": "http://localhost:3003"
}
At this time, my server.js read as having the port as 3002, with the react server starting on port 3000. To match my teachers example, I killed the ports, set the port number in my server.js to match what was in the package.json. Since then I have tried reverting that back to what I had it. But I just get errors. Here are the errors I am getting:
node:internal/fs/utils:346
throw err;
^
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '/mnt/c/Users/Patrick/Va Design Group Dropbox/Pat Mangan/PC (2)/Desktop/sei_work/mern-stack/mern-demo/build/favicon.ico'
at Object.statSync (node:fs:1601:3)
at resolveSync (/mnt/c/Users/Patrick/Va Design Group Dropbox/Pat Mangan/PC (2)/Desktop/sei_work/mern-stack/mern-demo/node_modules/serve-favicon/index.js:187:17)
at favicon (/mnt/c/Users/Patrick/Va Design Group Dropbox/Pat Mangan/PC (2)/Desktop/sei_work/mern-stack/mern-demo/node_modules/serve-favicon/index.js:61:12)
at Object.<anonymous> (/mnt/c/Users/Patrick/Va Design Group Dropbox/Pat Mangan/PC (2)/Desktop/sei_work/mern-stack/mern-demo/server.js:17:9)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1246:14)
at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1300:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1103:32)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:942:12)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:83:12)
at node:internal/main/run_main_module:23:47 {
errno: -2,
syscall: 'stat',
code: 'ENOENT',
path: '/mnt/c/Users/Patrick/Va Design Group Dropbox/Pat Mangan/PC (2)/Desktop/sei_work/mern-stack/mern-demo/build/favicon.ico'
}
[nodemon] starting `node server.js`
node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1332
return process.dlopen(module, path.toNamespacedPath(filename));
^
Error: /mnt/c/Users/Patrick/Va Design Group Dropbox/Pat Mangan/PC (2)/Desktop/sei_work/mern-stack/mern-infrastructure/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding/napi-v3/bcrypt_lib.node: invalid ELF header
at Module._extensions..node (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1332:18)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1103:32)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:942:12)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1127:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:112:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/mnt/c/Users/Patrick/Va Design Group Dropbox/Pat Mangan/PC (2)/Desktop/sei_work/mern-stack/mern-infrastructure/node_modules/bcrypt/bcrypt.js:6:16)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1246:14)
at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1300:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1103:32)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:942:12) {
code: 'ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED'
}
Any help would be appreciated.
I switched ports around, I uninstalled things, I deleted my node modules. I made an exact copy from scratch to see if something along the way broke. I have tried everything.