Spring catch all route for index.html

Question

I\'m developing a spring backend for a react-based single page application where I\'m using react-router for client-side routing.

Beside the index.html page the back

Answer 1

Avoid @EnableWebMvc

By default Spring-Boot serves static content in src/main/resources:

• /META-INF/resources/
• /resources/
• /static/
• /public/

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Or keep @EnableWebMvc and override addViewControllers

Did you specify @EnableWebMvc ? Take a look a this: Java Spring Boot: How to map my app root (“/”) to index.html?

Either you remove @EnableWebMvc, or you can re-define addViewControllers:

@Override
public void addViewControllers(ViewControllerRegistry registry) {
    registry.addViewController("/").setViewName("forward:/index.html");
}

Or define a Controller to catch /

You may take a look a this spring-boot-reactjs sample project on github:

It does what you want using a Controller:

@Controller
public class HomeController {

    @RequestMapping(value = "/")
    public String index() {
        return "index";
    }

}

Its index.html is under src/main/resources/templates