For deploying Medusa v2’s admin panel on Render, you typically need to build the admin frontend separately since it’s a React app that outputs static files like index.html. Render needs to serve these built files, so you should run the build command (usually npm run build in the admin folder) and point Render to the build folder as the static site root. If you’re only deploying the Medusa backend on Render, then yes—you’ll usually deploy the admin frontend separately (for example, on Vercel) to properly serve the React app. Your current repo likely only contains the backend, so having a separate frontend repo and deployment is recommended.