Navigating to a route directly does not redirect to add the #

[phutchins]

When navigating to https://grants.gtcdao.net/review/, an error is displayed.

Expected behavior:

• The router should attempt to redirect to https://grants.gtcdao.net/#/review/
• If the route does not exist, we should show a nicely designed error page
• If the route does exist, we should show the page

[aj-maz]

I studied this issue and I think it is not fixable by only fixing the app. I think it has 2 parts, one is fixing the router for the app, but the second one is in the way that the app is deployed.
When we go to https://grants.gtcdao.net/review/ it won't render the app at all, we should somehow manage to redirect them before hitting the app, or we should make that like no matter what route always renders the app. And base on how we solve this the solution needed to be implemented in the app would be different. For example, if we could manage to be able to redirect users to https://grants.gtcdao.net/#/review/ before hitting the app we could change nothing in the app and it would be fine since we already have a nice 404 page like this: https://grants.gtcdao.net/#/re123 .
I think before changing anything in the app we should find what is our possibilities in the deployment layer then we could find possible solutions.

[mds1]

@phutchins Just so you know this is the expected behavior with hash mode enabled on the router—the app will not redirect, and you are supposed to navigate to https://grants.gtcdao.net/#/review/

The best we can do is have https://grants.gtcdao.net/something just load the home page instead (I'm not sure how do this offhand, but it should be possible). AFAIK you can't modify that URL to https://grants.gtcdao.net/#/something as proposed in the issue description

Note this is also how Uniswap behaves—https://app.uniswap.org/pool loads the home page, but https://app.uniswap.org/#/pool loads the pools page