root redirect doesnt work

// in app/routes/index.js:
import Ember from 'ember';

const { Route } = Ember;

export default Route.extend({
  redirect() {
      this.transitionTo('public.contact');
  }
});

This does redirect when the app boots on clients browser, however fastboot doesnt redirect this.

[toddjordan]

ok, now that it looks like we fixed https://github.com/ember-learn/ember-api-docs/issues/427 That makes this issue our biggest hinderance for SEO in api docs, because the link to API on the emberjs.com website goes to https://emberjs.com/api , which does a route transition to a landing page.

Now eventually we want to add a landing page to /api that describes the overal api docs app, so this may be a moot point when that happens but until then we are hampering seo by returning a blank page from fastboot here (when js takes over on the browser it does the appropriate redirect)

[toddjordan]

@kratiahuja @rwjblue A not-so-minimal reproduction is the api docs app…

Where something like https://ember-api-docs.herokuapp.com/api/ember/2.18/classes/Engine gives a fastboot rendered page, while going just to https://ember-api-docs.herokuapp.com transitions to the first module, but does it client side, and the document returned from fastboot has no server-rendered content (only the base javascript/style imports to allow things to happen client side like a regular ember app)

(using the heroku url instead of emberjs.com to remove any proxying and fastly caching from the equation)