webpack-dev-server react-router push state

Question

I am trying to get react-router to work with webpack-dev-server but keep getting cannot Get /SOMEURL. This is because webpack-dev-server is looking for that specific file bu

Answer 1

Use the --history-api-fallback option to webpack-dev-server. This uses connect-history-api-fallback to serve up index.html if the route doesn't match any other files. (This does mean you have to use index.html as the filename for your HTML page.)

Answer 2

For me, i had this in my index file:

<script src="./assets/app.js"></script>

rather than

 <script src="/assets/app.js"></script>

So, it looks like the history fallback API was in competition with my misconfiguration.