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Stone
Stone

Reputation: 1911

Angular 2 for non-SPA (static pages)

All the samples I come across on the web are SPAs, I'm wondering if Angular 2 has a build-in way to handle static pages. Specifically, let's say I use Angular 2 to build a blog site, and I wish users could go directly to a particular post without going through the default home component, (which also incidentally, loads a lot of server side config). I mean, how do I enable user to go to http://server/posts/:id directly, without 404 showing up or configure a ** page for unreachables.

Just need some directions, thanks.

Let's say my folder structure goes like this

/posts
/shared
/users

and my main router goes like this

@RouteConfig([
    { path: './shared/...', name: 'Shared', component: SharedComponent },
    { path: './users/...', name: 'Users', component: UserComponent },
    { path: './posts/...', name: 'Posts', component: PostComponent }
])

and post router goes like this

@RouteConfig([
    { path: '/', name: 'List', component: ListComponent, useAsDefault: true },
    { path: '/:id', name: 'Post', component: PostComponent },
    { path: '/:id/gallery', name: 'Gallery', component: GalleryComponent },
    { path: '/:id/comments', name: 'Comments', component: CommentListComponent },
])

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1951

Answers (4)

Graeme
Graeme

Reputation: 427

I know I'm a year late, but your issue is that whatever web-server you're using needs to rewrite urls to the index.html of your web-app. If it did that, then when you went to server/hero/123, the web-server would direct it to the index.html of your web-app, and your web-app would use the router to go to the HeroDetail component, without showing the default home component. Because you don't have the rewrite, the web-server is not even starting the angular app and is instead trying to serve the file server/hero/123, which doesn't exist and therefore it gives you a 404.

FYI this would still be a SPA (single page application).

Upvotes: 0

christian.simms
christian.simms

Reputation: 906

I think I understand your problem. You need to configure your web server software (e.g., Apache) a certain way, this is not an Angular2 configuration issue. You need to configure your web server so that whenever it receives url requests like / or /posts or /posts/123 that it serves your main index.html file. Then Angular will automatically show the right content when it starts up.

Upvotes: 1

micronyks
micronyks

Reputation: 55443

Its quite hard to tell the perfect answer as you are asking for without going through the default home component(I am not sure what do you mean by that).

AFAIK, in angular2 you can have one component which can define/set routes for other components and so their relevant view.

Let's say after defining routes in a single component,

if you go with the HashLocationStrategy like below,

bootstrap(AppComponent, [provide(LocationStrategy,{useClass: HashLocationStrategy}]);

Angular2 will be able to provide you required route and so you don't need to configure server with some extra route setting. Then, you will be able to access required resource at http://server/#/posts/:id

If you go with PathLocationStrategy like below,

bootstrap(AppComponent, [provide(APP_BASE_HREF).toValue(location.pathname)]);

For this configuration angular2 will not be able to provide you required route and so server side routing needs to be configured. Then, you will be able to access required resource at http://server/posts/:id

So In short if required/asking path exits, it will take users to that path.

Upvotes: 0

letmejustfixthat
letmejustfixthat

Reputation: 3459

Seems like you are looking for routers. Have a look at the docs: Off. Guide and Router Tutorial. It's used like this:

@Component({ ... })
@RouteConfig([
  {path:'/crisis-center', name: 'CrisisCenter', component: CrisisListComponent},
  {path:'/heroes',        name: 'Heroes',       component: HeroListComponent},
  {path:'/hero/:id',      name: 'HeroDetail',   component: HeroDetailComponent}
])
export class AppComponent { }

Upvotes: 0

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