I am trying to use html5mode in angular, so that I can bookmark a page like http:/myhost/products (where /products is a route defined by$stateProviderRef.state(xxx) ).
To that end I've
added $locationProvider.html5Mode(true) to my app config
added 'base href="/"' (with the <>) to my index.html
added the catch all rewrite to my server.js in node.js
app.get('*', function(req, res) {
res.redirect('/');
});
restarted the node server
so what happens is that the app starts ok, all navigation works, I can go to http://myhost/products and everything works well.
However, if I press refresh at this point, I am redirected back to the index page. Looks to me as if ui-router is either losing the path (/products) or I have missed something in the config / setup
I have been browsing through the questions on StackOverflow until my eyes are bleeding, but all of the solutions to similar problems are things that I've already done (base=, redirect etc)
Anyone else has this problem and solved it ? Would be much appreciated if you could share your findings.
Thanks
You shouldn't redirect in server like that
app.get('*', function(req, res) { res.redirect('/'); });
Instead, send same index.html
app.route('/*')
.get(function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(path.resolve(app.get('appPath') + '/index.html'));
});
Take a look at this generator for more
https://github.com/DaftMonk/generator-angular-fullstack/blob/master/app/templates/server/routes.js
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This issue has come up before, but the existing answers still aren't working for me. My app uses React-Router 4, with Node/Express on the back end.
I have read Tyler McGinnis's explanation. I am using Browser Router and what McGinnis calls the "Catch-all" solution. My routes look like this:
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '../client/public')));
app.post('/auth/signin', signin);
// more Auth and CRUD routes
app.get('/*', function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, '../client/public/index.html'), function(err) {
if (err) {
res.status(500).send(err)
}
})
});
When I manually enter or refresh routes like http://localhost:8357/admin, this solution works fine. However, when I try that with longer routes like http://localhost:8357/admin/create, the app crashes. As far as I can tell, the browser loads index.html but then looks for bundle in http://localhost:8357/admin/bundle.
Edit: I sorta fixed this problem by hardcoding the css and bundle links in index.html, ie replacing <script type="text/javascript" src='bundle/bundle.js'></script> with <script type="text/javascript" src='http://localhost:8357/bundle/bundle.js'></script>. When I deploy I'll have to change those links. Not an elegant solution, but it works. Is there a better way?
I actually don't believe this has anything to do with React Router.
If you want it use a path that's relative to the root of your directory, you need to make sure you have a forward slash at the beginning.
For example: instead of using bundle/bundle.js, you'll want to make sure you use /bundle/bundle.js.
Hope that works for you!
I have a strange issue with UI router and Express interacting together.
I've looked for solutions everywhere but nothing seems to be completely fixing the issue working.
When my app is in my /public folder and when i navigate to / it works fine and the url is getting changed as i click links.But whenever i go directly to /random/path ( ui-sref="post/new"> ), it get intercepted by nodejs and say that this route doesn't exist.
I've fixed that issue using from a topic on that issue :
app.use('/', express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.use(function (req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/public/');
});
And now everything is working fine whenever i navigate directly to the path i want.
Now there is a new issue where the whole page will reload on every path change instead of just behaving like a client side app should and just load the view + controller.
The strange thing is that it's working as expected for 2 or 3 path.
Can anyone help ?
edit :
angular.module('App').config(function($stateProvider, $locationProvider,$urlRouterProvider) {
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/');
$stateProvider
.state('posts-new', {
url:'/post/new',
templateUrl: 'tmpl1.html'
})
.state('posts', {
url:'/posts',
templateUrl: 'tmpl2.html'
});
});
I've also tried with both base url / and <base href="/index.html">
Alright, so your NodeJS route not existing is because of your route.
It works fine for / because it interprets that as /public/index.html.
If you then try and load /post/new, it looks for /public/post/new/index.html - and doesn't find it.
Fix below should work for you.
app.use(function (req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/public/index.html');
});
Then, you'll need a slightly separate way of serving your templates - basically as static files! I'd personally suggest you use a simple folder for templates, as shown below. Make sure this is above your catchall route above.
app.use('/templates', express.static('/public/templates'));
Oh, and finally - you'll want your <base> tag set to /.
I have typically used Angular to create whole websites rather than for parts of a website but now I would like to separate the homepage for SEO purposes so that it's a static HTML file and not part of the AngularJS app.
I'm using ExpressJS on the back-end but I'm not sure how I would serve the index.html and the app/index.html separately. Could someone point me in the right direction?
In server.js I normally have something like this:
app.use(function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/app/index.html');
});
but what do I need to do to be able to deliver index.html if the user goes to the homepage and app/index.html if the user navigates to /somewhere
I'm trying to avoid the cost of an extra Heroku Application fee if at all possible?
See the code below. You will setup a rule wherein if the url is /home (or whatever your homepage path is), you send the user to index.html and after all the rules (if you have more rules) you will have a catchall rule where you will send user to app/index.html.
app.route('/home')
.get(function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});
app.route('/*')
.get(function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/app/index.html');
});
};
I have remove (#) hashbangs by $locationProvider.html5Mode(true) in ui-route.
and set <base href="/public/">
when I have tried to localhost:59940/public/#/home url # is remove and url look localhost:59940/public/home and getting home view.
but when I have tried localhost:59940/public/home url. I have getting 404 Not Found error.
help me for getting home view when try to access localhost:59940/public/home in browser.
The problem is that the browser resolves urls before your angular app responds, and indeed the resource for that route is not there. The solution I have used is to make your 404 route return the index.html page and use ui-router to handle real 404 cases. But another idea is to match all of the client routes to routes on your server which return the index.html.
To enable $locationProvider.html5Mode in angular, you also need to some side server changes.
Other then your static assets and apis path, all other routes should server index.html(your main SPA page) only.
See below code.
This is how you can do it in node.js using express server.
var app = require('express')();
app.configure(function() {
// Static files - all js, css, images, etc go into the static path
app.use('/static', express.static('/static'));
// If a static file is invalid so we send 404
app.use('/static', function(req, res, next) {
res.send(404);
});
// This route deals enables HTML5Mode by forwarding missing files to the index.html
app.all('/*', function(req, res) {
res.sendfile('index.html');
});
});
app.listen(3000);
I'm trying to remove # from my angularjs urls using
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
$locationProvider.hashPrefix('!');
and <base href="/"> in my index.html and i have changed the hrefs in my partials from #/abc to /abc
it works fine when navigating through links within the site, however except my home page, on every other page, when i try to reload the page or copy and paste the link(and hit enter) it gives me error. i have done alot of search online with no luck. i'm hoping someone here has already gone through this and can help me.
thanks
So if you are using jade you shall do the following:
app.get('/', index);
// while index is defined in routes.js and jade is defined as template engine
If you're using angularjs templating engine with normal html files, do the following:
exports.index = function(req, res) {
res.sendfile(__dirname + "/public/index.html");
};
app.get('/', index);