React routing with MVC routing, what's happening here? - reactjs

I am very new to react and trying to build an app with a react front end and MVC/web API backend. I am running into an issue.
All I've done is created a sample ASP.NET core web app with react, based on the included Visual Studio template. dotnet new react. I've made no other changes to this code.
This app is currently deployed to an Azure app service at: https://examplemvcreact.azurewebsites.net/
Expected: If I visit the url https://examplemvcreact.azurewebsites.net/weatherforecast, I would expect, the weatherforecast controller is called, and its data returned.
Actual result: I get what appears to be a blank index page, with the header rendered correctly.
However, I also notice: that if I do a full refresh, control+f5, on the url https://examplemvcreact.azurewebsites.net/weatherforecast , it DOES in fact hit the controller and give me the data.
Can anyone help me understand how this routing is working? Locally, I don't have this issue.
thank you!

It was the service worker. I removed the import and call in my index.js file, and my mvc calls are now going back to the server as expected.

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React website refresh showing page not found

I have a build a React website and hosted in Hosting er. When i go to website and open another page and refresh, it's showing "Oops, looks like the page is lost." How i will resolve this bug? Is this problem with routing in React?
I need fully functional website like when i run in my system. But when hosted the pages are not working properly.
The reason the website shows 404 is because in react all routes go to the index.html to render the components. But in a standard hosting it will look for a HTML file in the route's directory which doesn't exist in a React Application. Hence we configure our hosting service to redirect all request to the root index.html.
In your case since you have hosted on Hostinger you may use the follwoing guidelines to make updates to your .htaccess.
Official Guidelines from Hostinger:
https://www.hostinger.in/tutorials/what-is-react#How_to_Deploy_a_React_Application_on_Hostinger

calling react page from postman is possible or not?

We created a react js application.
Problem: Not able to hit react URL from the postman to run component's function.
local URL: http://localhost:3000/rules/routine
Note: Above URL can be reached without login.
When we are calling a url from browser it's working however when we hit from a postman then it always returns public/index.html page but not the expected response.
So it is not calling the proper url http://localhost:3000/rules/routine.
Please find attached screenshots on below links
browser hit: https://prnt.sc/73gDWh4PiHgu
Postman hit: https://prnt.sc/fhVL78yaiATP
It's technically possible, and working it seems, but I suspect your expectations are a little skewed in what you think Postman will do or is capable of.
Keep in mind that all React apps are effectively a single page app, even when they use a routing/navigation package like react-router. react-router is only manipulating the URL in the address bar in the browser window, the app is still running from the single location on a server where it's hosted, i.e. public/index.html.
The servers hosting the app are configured to route all page requests, i.e. "http://localhost:3000/rules/routine" to the root index file, i.e. "http://localhost:3000/index.html" so the React app is loaded and can handle the "/rules/routine" internally.
So from what I see here, the response from Postman is absolutely correct and what I'd expect to see. It made a request to the development server for a nested directory "/rules/routing" and the server responded with the root index.html file. When the browser makes this request to the development server and gets a HTML file back it loads and renders it, and in this case, it's your React app.
Postman isn't a browser so it's not going to load the HTML response and do anything with it.

ReactJS - Fetch as Google only works for homepage but not other routes?

I used create-react-app to create my react app.
I have it deployed on AWS Cloudfront + S3. Everything seems to work when I visit the site: https://www.remotecareers.io
However, when I try using the "Fetch and Render" feature of Fetch as Google, I see this:
It's weird that the This is how a visitor to your website would have seen the page: part is empty. However, my main issue is when I try to do the same thing for the non-root routes.
For example, I have this page: https://www.remotecareers.io/remote-jobs/new. It looks like it's working fine. However, when I try fetching it through google it says it's Not Found.
It says the same thing in the new Google Search Console too:
So far even to get just the This is how Googlebot saw the page: part to work, I installed and added:
import "babel-polyfill"; // I tried this by itself as well as with the 2 below
import "url-search-params-polyfill";
import "whatwg-fetch";
What's weird is that the homepage is (partially) working but the rest of the pages aren't being scanned at all. I thought it might be because I wa missing the robots.txt file so I added it but it seems to not have any affect (https://www.remotecareers.io/robots.txt). Can someone help me?
From my experience, relying on googlebots to run javascript to render the app is not very reliable. For best SEO performance, you need to server render your react app.
You will need a dedicated NodeJS server that will render your react app, then send down the rendered HTML to the browser. The browser will receive the HTML response, which includes some script tags as well. After the scripts are loaded, it will run and hydrate your react app so that everything works properly.
Try reading this article to get you started on this topic.

routing in angularjs with nodejs

I am building an application with AngularJS 1.7 for the frontend and using NodeJS for the backend. I am facing troubles implementing the routes. What I'm trying to do is set up routes in angular as well as in Node.
For eg:
I have '/contacts' route in angular which server the index page for me. It works just fine.
Now when i want to load data into the page, I'm trying to make a http request to '/contacts' which should ideally get me data from the Node backend. I am actually confused on how the routing will work in this case. Will there be any conflicts?
Node code :
const contacts = require('./routes/contacts');
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname,'public')));
app.use('/contacts',contacts);
I have routing set up in contact file which i have included on top.
Angular code:
$routeProvider.when('/contacts',{templateUrl:'views/contacts.html',controller:'contactsController'});
You didn't provide whole code, maybe the problem is in the beginning of your configuration. I did work with angularJs and I have a simple project on my github which may help you how to manage routes.
See github-angularjs-springboot-project.

Routing Issues with Production Build of React Application

So I'm trying to deploy my first React application live. It is my portfolio webiste. Anyways, everything is working fine except for my routes. Locally, Everything works fine. However, now that I've deployed the website my routes do not work. When you click on any of the links it says the url cannot be found on the server, and it throws a 404 error.
The application is hosted by namecheap, and they said they cannot see anything wrong from their end. I just have no idea what could be wrong then as it all works find locally.
My website can be found at andrewschubert.website and the github repo for this can be found at https://github.com/theschubinator/my-portfolio If anyone has any ideas what I'm doing wrong I would greatly appreciate it!
By the way, it is a React Application. There is no database or API, just strictly front-end. The only links that are actually working are the ones that redirect you to an area outside of my application...like my blog on medium.
I can see that you've been using react-router lib for your routing. It is based on HTML5 history API, which is not supported by every host out there. If you are talking about your portfolio website and it's not so much of and issue where do you deploy it, try out some different hosts (e.g. surge is great for deploying static sites: https://surge.sh/).
React applications are single page. Routing in React means changing the components displayed when user requests a different url. You will need an api.
On every client request you return the same "index.html" which will display only one component. By creating a controller in your server you can map "/contact" to "index.html#contact" and your hashrouter can return the ContactUs component.

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