server/AyaNova/Startup.cs

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer;
 using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
 
 using AyaNova.Models;
 using AyaNova.Util;
@@ -304,17 +305,20 @@ namespace AyaNova
             #region STATIC FILES
             _log.LogDebug("BOOT: pipeline - static files");
             app.UseDefaultFiles();
-            app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions
-            {
-                OnPrepareResponse = context =>
-                {
-                    if (context.File.Name == "default.htm")
-                    {
-                        context.Context.Response.Headers.Add("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store");
-                        context.Context.Response.Headers.Add("Expires", "-1");
-                    }
-                }
-            });
+            app.UseStaticFiles();
+            //Might need the following if the page doesn't update in the client properly
+            //however the vue build process will automatically uniquify each build file names so maybe not required
+            // app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions
+            // {
+            //     OnPrepareResponse = context =>
+            //     {
+            //         if (context.File.Name == "index.html")
+            //         {
+            //             context.Context.Response.Headers.Add("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store");
+            //             context.Context.Response.Headers.Add("Expires", "-1");
+            //         }
+            //     }
+            // });
             #endregion
 
             #region AUTH / ROLES
@@ -358,9 +362,6 @@ namespace AyaNova
             _log.LogDebug("BOOT: pipeline - MVC");
             app.UseMvc();
 
-
-
-
             // ******************************************************************
             // ******************** TESTING WIPE DB *****************************
             //
@@ -410,9 +411,25 @@ namespace AyaNova
 #endif
 
 
-            //Set autoId values 
+            //AUTOID VALUES INITIALIZATION 
             ServerBootConfig.SetMostRecentAutoIdValuesFromDatabase(dbContext);
 
+            //SPA FALLBACK ROUTE     
+            //this ensures that a refresh at the client will not 404 but rather force back to the index.html app page and then handled internally
+            //by the client      
+            app.Use(async (context, next) =>
+            {
+                await next();
+                if (context.Response.StatusCode == 404 && !Path.HasExtension(context.Request.Path.Value))
+                {
+                    context.Request.Path = "/index.html";
+                    context.Response.StatusCode = 200;
+                    context.Response.ContentType = "text/html";
+                    await context.Response.SendFileAsync(Path.Combine(env.WebRootPath, "index.html"));
+                }
+            });
+
+
             //Open up the server for visitors
             apiServerState.SetOpen();