Front-controller style static HTML

README.md

A little experiment in nginx rewrites. Any request for an actual directory within site gets served the index.html page. The client side is responsible for loading data.json from the requested directory and rendering (I'm using react). The client will also implement history management to avoid full-page refreshes.

nginx.conf

        error_page  404  /index.html;

        location / {
            if (-d $document_root$uri) {
                rewrite ^ /index.html break;
            }
        }

        location /admin/ {
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9543;
        }

project-tree

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├── Makefile
├── app
│   └── admin.py
├── bower.json
├── bower_components
│   ├── ...
├── nginx.conf
└── site
    ├── collections
    │   ├── data.json
    │   └── item-one
    │       ├── data.json
    │       └── ...
    ├── images
    │   ├── data.json
    │   └── ...
    ├── index.html
    ├── data.json
    ├── app.js
    ├── main.css
    └── lib.min.js