Cannot find asset issue during cdk bootstrap

Hello team!

Encountering the below error during the cdk bootstrap step. Not sure if this is a new issue. Help appreciated. Thanks

cd react-ssr-lambda
cd ./cdk
npm install
npm run build
cdk bootstrap - failed here

Error: Cannot find asset at /home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/simple-ssr/build
at new AssetStaging (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/asset-staging.js:1:1402)
at new Asset (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/lib/asset.js:1:736)
at Object.bind (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/source.js:1:1185)
at /home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/bucket-deployment.js:1:3013
at Array.map ()
at new BucketDeployment (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/bucket-deployment.js:1:2994)
at new SsrStack (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/lib/srr-stack.ts:44:5)
at Object. (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/bin/cdk.ts:13:1)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1376:14)
at Module.m._compile (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:1618:23)