How work with local site version without server?

[Slavenin]

Hi!
I try use react router with local version app after build them. Browser open file as link

file://app/dir/index.html

But router throw 404 error. How i can setting up router fo work with local version site?
repo
Tnx!

[timdorr]

You have to use a hash history to use a local file. Browser histories don't work without a server.

[tomprogers]

I don't think this will work.

Although it's possible to create routing configuration that enables the index route to load when the app is served over the file:// protocol, navigation around the app breaks down immediately.

The reason navigation fails is that react-router -- like many single-page-app routing modules -- is ultimately built on top of the Web History API. The Web History API is implemented natively in browsers, and it cares about document.origin (a read-only property that is specially set to null when viewing a page loaded over the file:// protocol). Core History methods apparently throw exceptions when invoked within documents whose origin is null, which prevents react-router from actually carrying out navigation changes. This problem seems to apply whether the router is configured with a browserHistory or a hashHistory; a fatal exception is thrown when pushState is invoked on history.

[timdorr]

You can use a hash history on a local file just fine. We use it in our test suite. Make sure you've configured things correctly.

[Slavenin]

@tomprogers, i use hashHistory and this work fine