Rewriting nginx for pushState-URL's

Question

I am trying to get nginx to work with my pushState-based URI handling that backbone.js manages for me in an Javascript app.

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Answer 1

I ended up going with this solution:

server {

    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/example.com;

    # Any route containing a file extension (e.g. /devicesfile.js)
    location ~ ^.+\..+$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
    }

    # Any route that doesn't have a file extension (e.g. /devices)
    location / {
        try_files $uri /index.html;
    }

}

This way, at least I still get proper 404 errors if a file isn't found.