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I been working in a website that have a simple application built in reactjs that works as single page application.
The requirements are that the routes must be normal routes like /works/software-engineering or /user/charlie-parker, avoiding he # because this website will be optimized for SEO and the routing it is very important.



My simple webserver built in nodejs looks like this:



const express = require('express');
const version = require('./package.json');

const app = express();

const port = process.env.PORT || 8080;

// make express look in the public directory for assets (css/js/img)
app.use(express.static(`$__dirname/public`));

// show docker container health
app.get('/health', (req, res) =>
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
res.send(JSON.stringify( version, status: 'up', uptime: process.uptime() ));
);

// redirect all routes like works/work-tag,works/work-id or user/user-id/edit to index.html
app.get('*', (req, res) =>
console.log('+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++');
console.log(req.params);
console.log('+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++');
res.sendFile(`$__dirname/public/index.html`);
);

app.listen(port, () =>
console.log(`App is running on http://localhost:$port`);
);


So my question for the community, **In your experience: Any case that is not covered for this simple web server for a SPA application? Some caveat for this kind of implementation? **



Thanks!










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    The problem is that there cannot be 404, even paths that obviously aren't supposed to be handled by client-side router, e.g. /js/.
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    Nov 10 at 6:47














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I been working in a website that have a simple application built in reactjs that works as single page application.
The requirements are that the routes must be normal routes like /works/software-engineering or /user/charlie-parker, avoiding he # because this website will be optimized for SEO and the routing it is very important.



My simple webserver built in nodejs looks like this:



const express = require('express');
const version = require('./package.json');

const app = express();

const port = process.env.PORT || 8080;

// make express look in the public directory for assets (css/js/img)
app.use(express.static(`$__dirname/public`));

// show docker container health
app.get('/health', (req, res) =>
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
res.send(JSON.stringify( version, status: 'up', uptime: process.uptime() ));
);

// redirect all routes like works/work-tag,works/work-id or user/user-id/edit to index.html
app.get('*', (req, res) =>
console.log('+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++');
console.log(req.params);
console.log('+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++');
res.sendFile(`$__dirname/public/index.html`);
);

app.listen(port, () =>
console.log(`App is running on http://localhost:$port`);
);


So my question for the community, **In your experience: Any case that is not covered for this simple web server for a SPA application? Some caveat for this kind of implementation? **



Thanks!










share|improve this question

















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    The problem is that there cannot be 404, even paths that obviously aren't supposed to be handled by client-side router, e.g. /js/.
    – estus
    Nov 10 at 6:47












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I been working in a website that have a simple application built in reactjs that works as single page application.
The requirements are that the routes must be normal routes like /works/software-engineering or /user/charlie-parker, avoiding he # because this website will be optimized for SEO and the routing it is very important.



My simple webserver built in nodejs looks like this:



const express = require('express');
const version = require('./package.json');

const app = express();

const port = process.env.PORT || 8080;

// make express look in the public directory for assets (css/js/img)
app.use(express.static(`$__dirname/public`));

// show docker container health
app.get('/health', (req, res) =>
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
res.send(JSON.stringify( version, status: 'up', uptime: process.uptime() ));
);

// redirect all routes like works/work-tag,works/work-id or user/user-id/edit to index.html
app.get('*', (req, res) =>
console.log('+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++');
console.log(req.params);
console.log('+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++');
res.sendFile(`$__dirname/public/index.html`);
);

app.listen(port, () =>
console.log(`App is running on http://localhost:$port`);
);


So my question for the community, **In your experience: Any case that is not covered for this simple web server for a SPA application? Some caveat for this kind of implementation? **



Thanks!










share|improve this question













I been working in a website that have a simple application built in reactjs that works as single page application.
The requirements are that the routes must be normal routes like /works/software-engineering or /user/charlie-parker, avoiding he # because this website will be optimized for SEO and the routing it is very important.



My simple webserver built in nodejs looks like this:



const express = require('express');
const version = require('./package.json');

const app = express();

const port = process.env.PORT || 8080;

// make express look in the public directory for assets (css/js/img)
app.use(express.static(`$__dirname/public`));

// show docker container health
app.get('/health', (req, res) =>
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
res.send(JSON.stringify( version, status: 'up', uptime: process.uptime() ));
);

// redirect all routes like works/work-tag,works/work-id or user/user-id/edit to index.html
app.get('*', (req, res) =>
console.log('+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++');
console.log(req.params);
console.log('+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++');
res.sendFile(`$__dirname/public/index.html`);
);

app.listen(port, () =>
console.log(`App is running on http://localhost:$port`);
);


So my question for the community, **In your experience: Any case that is not covered for this simple web server for a SPA application? Some caveat for this kind of implementation? **



Thanks!







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    The problem is that there cannot be 404, even paths that obviously aren't supposed to be handled by client-side router, e.g. /js/.
    – estus
    Nov 10 at 6:47












  • 1




    The problem is that there cannot be 404, even paths that obviously aren't supposed to be handled by client-side router, e.g. /js/.
    – estus
    Nov 10 at 6:47







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The problem is that there cannot be 404, even paths that obviously aren't supposed to be handled by client-side router, e.g. /js/.
– estus
Nov 10 at 6:47




The problem is that there cannot be 404, even paths that obviously aren't supposed to be handled by client-side router, e.g. /js/.
– estus
Nov 10 at 6:47

















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