Simple page app routes to same view or controller SailsJS

Question

How can I route multiple urls to the same controller or view to work with angular single page app?!

I can do this but i think is ugly..

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Answer 1

You can't currently use real regular expressions for routing. You can however use a wildcard route to do what you want (aim multiple routes at one view).

Put this at the end of your /config/routes.js object:

'/*': function(req, res, next) {
         if (req.path.match(/\..*/g)) {
            return next();
         } else {
            return res.view('homepage');
         }
      }

and everything that isn't matched by one of the routes above it will execute that function. The function first checks if you're trying to access a static asset (something with a file extension, like .js or .css), and if so, continues matching the route so that the Express static middleware can server the file. Otherwise, it will server your view.

Update

As of Sails v0.10.0-rc5, regular expressions can be used to define routes. From the docs:

The syntax for a regular expression route is:

"r||"

That's the letter "r", followed by a pipe, a regular expression string without delimiters, another pipe, and a list of parameter names that should be mapped to parenthesized groups in the regular expression. For example:

"r|^/\d+/(\w+)/(\w+)$|foo,bar": "MessageController.myaction"

will match /123/abc/def, running the myaction action of MessageController and supplying the values abc and def as req.param('foo') and req.param('bar'), respectively.