vue-router in production (serving with Go)

Question

I'd like to separate client and server completely, so I created a vuejs project with vue init webpack my-project. In this project I'm using vue-router for all my routing (this includes special paths, like /user/SOMEID..

This is my routes.js file:

import App from './App.vue'

export const routes = [
  {
    path: '/',
    component: App.components.home
  },
  {
    path: '/user/:id',
    component: App.components.userid
  },
  {
    path: '*',
    component: App.components.notFound
  }
]

When I run the application using npm run dev everything works perfectly. I'm now ready to deploy to cloud, so I ran npm run build. Since I need to use a HTTP Server, I decided to use Go for that as well.. this is my Go file:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/go-chi/chi"
    "github.com/me/myproject/server/handler"
    "net/http"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    r := chi.NewRouter()

    distDir := "/home/me/code/go/src/github.com/me/myproject/client/dist/static"
    FileServer(r, "/static", http.Dir(distDir))

    r.Get("/", IndexGET)

    http.ListenAndServe(":8080", r)
}

func IndexGET(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    handler.Render.HTML(w, http.StatusOK, "index", map[string]interface{}{})
}

func FileServer(r chi.Router, path string, root http.FileSystem) {
    if strings.ContainsAny(path, "{}*") {
        panic("FileServer does not permit URL parameters.")
    }

    fs := http.StripPrefix(path, http.FileServer(root))

    if path != "/" && path[len(path)-1] != '/' {
        r.Get(path, http.RedirectHandler(path+"/", 301).ServeHTTP)
        path += "/"
    }
    path += "*"

    r.Get(path, http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        fs.ServeHTTP(w, r)
    }))
}

I'm able to load the home page (App.components.home) where everything seem to work (the css, the images, translations, calls to and responses from the server).. but when I try to open other routes that should either result in 404 or load a user, then I just get the response 404 page not found in plaintext (not the vue notFound component it's supposed to render)..

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it?

---

Edit: this is the other part of the router setup in the main.js file:

const router = new VueRouter({
  mode: 'history',
  base: __dirname,
  routes
})

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  router,
  i18n,
  render: h => h(App)
})

Answer 1

I might be wrong, but maybe the routes that you are trying to visit gets resolved in the server (in your Go http server).

You can try to remove the mode: 'history' in your vue-router initialization so that it defaults to hash mode (the routes will then resolve in browser). please see this link.