Can I put all my redirects in a single file?
I'm rewriting an existing web app, and I have a bunch of routes that I'm looking to redirect. (I want old routes that a user might have as a bookmark to still take them to the appropriate place)
I'm wondering if there's a way for me to handle all the redirects I need to set up in the application in one spot?
Example:
I have multiple old pages that will be getting combined into one:
/prospects/contacts and /prospects/overview.
Both of these routes will end up being served on a single page /contacts in the new app.
From what I understand with tanstack router– I could set up a directory prospects and have two files contacts.tsx and overview.tsx that each have a fileRoute with beforeLoad and throw redirect to the /contacts route.
Since I have about 10 other places that follow this example pattern– I'm hoping that I can handle it all in one place rather than needing a bunch of directories/files that solely exist for redirecting old routes.
Does this question make sense? Thanks!3 Replies
flat-fuchsia•7mo ago
if you don't define those routes you would run into router not finding a matching route
we will be adding a rewrite hook in future that will allow that
you might be able to hack router to add routes via code, I need to try this later and will post an example if it works
national-goldOP•7mo ago
thanks Manuel, I'll go ahead and just roll with a ~dozen placeholder rewrite files in the project for now with the hope that I can combine/simplify it in the future. Appreciate the quick response!
flat-fuchsia•7mo ago
the nice thing about that is that you also get search params typesafety (if you used them)