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Created August 20, 2012 10:33
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Express.js Backbone.js pushState router
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app.coffee
# if the resource is not found then forward to backbone's router
app.use (req, res) ->
newUrl = req.protocol + '://' + req.get('Host') + '/#' + req.url
res.redirect newUrl
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app.js
// if the resource is not found then forward to backbone's router
app.use(function(req, res) {
var newUrl = req.protocol + '://' + req.get('Host') + '/#' + req.url;
return res.redirect(newUrl);
});
@kellyjandrews
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Out of curiosity - how did you get around routes that don't exist for a 404 error?

@kyusu
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kyusu commented Apr 25, 2014

This proved to be quite helpful. Thanks for posting this! I especially appreciate that your gist written both in Java- and CoffeeScript. Very considered.

@angelogulina
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Am I wrong or this actually make a page refresh?

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