correct me if I am wrong, if you load */v2/challenges/new* in ie9, you get
base route resolution in angular app right? instead of */v2/challenges/new* you
get default page loaded right?


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Yale Kaul <[email protected]> wrote:

> That mostly makes sense to me.
>
> The part I'm still confused about is 1.2.
>
> I'm able to make the server redirect to */#/v2/challenges/new* for IE9,
> but how will Angular know to do the same thing at */#/v2/challenges/new*and
> */v2/challenges/new* (no hashbang)?
>
> In other words, I load */v2/challenges/new* in Chrome and serve the index
> route, which has all my Angular routes set up. One of those routes is:
>
> $routeProvider
>         .when('/v2/challenges/new', {
>             templateUrl: '/assets/templates/new.html',
>             controller: 'BuildController'
>
> ... so Angular correctly loads the correct controller and template.
>
> But if I load* /v2/challenges/new* in IE9, and then I configure Rails to
> redirect to* /#/v2/challenges/new, *what should happen then? I realize
> that answer is probably fairly specific to my app, but maybe there's a
>  general answer.
>
> Again, I really appreciate your help so far. This is super confusing to me.
>
> (Sorry for the odd delay; had to step away from this problem for a few
> days)
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:36:16 PM UTC-7, Alesei N wrote:
>>
>> I think this should make it bit more clear:
>> 1) User enters site at /v2/challenges/new
>>    1.1) default: browser that supports html5 history would then serve
>> index view from that route, index view has all the references to JS/CSS.
>> Angular app loads, sees its at /v2/challenges/new and does what it needs
>> to do for that route.
>>    1.2) user agent is ie9: you would have to redirect them to root of
>> domain.com plus appending this route to it via hash bang domain.com/#
>> /v2/challenges/new. So at the end you actually redirecting to
>> domain.com/#/v2/challenges/new.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Yale Kaul <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks so much for your reply, Alesei.
>>>
>>> So if I'm understanding you correctly, the flow for an IE9 visitor is
>>> this:
>>>
>>> 1. User loads /v2/challenges/new,
>>> 2. Angular rewrites to /#!/v2/challenges/new
>>> 3. Browser ignores everything after #, and loads '/'
>>> 4. Server serves up '/', which must have references to Angular scripts
>>> --
>>> 5. This is the part I'm still not understanding. Once I get to the root
>>> route, the Angular router takes over? How does it differentiate between
>>> someone requesting /#!/v2/challenges/new  and someone requesting root
>>> route?
>>>
>>> Thanks again!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, April 24, 2014 6:02:36 AM UTC-7, Alesei N wrote:
>>>>
>>>> it means, all the routes that you have set up in your SPA, should have
>>>> corresponding Rails routes. So when you are hitting that route directly in
>>>> browser, your rails app can serve html that has references to your angular
>>>> app javascript and styles.
>>>>
>>>> In case of hash bang and ie9 it depends how far you want to go, your
>>>> root route, should serve mark up that has references to javascript and
>>>> styles, so once app loads it can react to /#!/v2/challenges/new. There
>>>> are other things you can do, for example if some one comes from normal url
>>>> from search, but user agent is ie9, you could redirect to root with hash
>>>> bang equivalent of that route.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 3:54:44 PM UTC-5, Yale Kaul wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been working on an AngularJS/Rails app that must support IE9.
>>>>> From what I've read, I should set html5Mode to true in my AngularJS 
>>>>> config,
>>>>> which will use the HTML5 History API for browsers that support it, and 
>>>>> fall
>>>>> back to hashbang URLs for older browsers. All of the Angular stuff in my
>>>>> app is rooted at */v2/challenges/.*
>>>>>
>>>>> In the fantastic ng-book <https://www.ng-book.com/>, it says:
>>>>>
>>>>> "The back-end server will have to support URL rewriting on the server
>>>>> side. To support HTML5 mode, the server will have to make sure to deliver
>>>>> the index.html page for all apps. That ensures that our Angular app will
>>>>> handle the route."
>>>>>
>>>>> What does that mean specifically?
>>>>>
>>>>> If my AngularJS content is at /v2/challenges/new (which appears as
>>>>> /#!/v2/challenges/new in IE9),
>>>>>
>>>>> ...what does that mean for me in terms of the URL rewriting I need to
>>>>> do on the server side?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
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