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Posted by Deni Chan
Deni Chan
Courses Plus Student 19,384 Points

React router. Cannot GET when refreshing a page or write url manually

I am trying to build a SPA with react router. When I am navigating with link it works perfect, but with refreshing or writting url it gives me cannot GET /(any route except main). I was trying to add historyApiFallback : true option to my webpack dev server configs but it didnt solved it.

I will appreciate any help.

1 Answer

akak
akak
29,445 Points
akak
akak
29,445 Points

Hi. You need either use hashHistory, or if you want to use browserHistory have a server with catch all that always returns index.html and from there react router takes in and gets you to the right route. For testing and dev I usually use hashHistory to avoid server hassle, and then change to browserHistory before going to production. You can find more info here. https://css-tricks.com/learning-react-router/#article-header-id-9 and https://github.com/reactjs/react-router/blob/master/docs/guides/Histories.md#configuring-your-server

Cheers!

Deni Chan
Deni Chan
Courses Plus Student 19,384 Points

Many thanks man! Yes, I figured out that with Hashhistory it works fine.But I want my url looks nice. I saw that link that you put and I tried to implement express server like there but after that my ajax reqests stoped work