Golang +角

Question

I started trying to work with Go and Angular, but I have a weird issue.. I guess I'm just missing a tiny detail, but I can't figure it out.

I'm using https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter as a router for Go ... now with Angular, I should be able to copy & paste a URL into the browser and Angular should handle the according routes, right?

I have a "/login" route. Which works if the route gets accessed via the front-end .... but doesn't if I type in "mypage.com/login" into the browser, getting a 404.

Go routing basically is only doing

router.NotFound = http.FileServer(http.Dir("./public"))

Which works for the "/" route, but not for anything else. Which seems to be correct. But how do I setup the routing correctly, so Angular handles all the routing?

Answer 1

You can use the http package directly.

Index page

http.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    http.ServeFile(w, r, "./public/index.html")
})

This will serve the index.html file on all requests that don't match a route.

File server

http.Handle("/public/", http.StripPrefix("/public/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("./public"))))

This will serve all files from the public directory.

Don't forget to start your server

http.ListenAndServe(":8000", nil)