Build a custom server

Feature

Custom server

Why is this feature being added?

The custom server will be needed for juicy SEO benefits.

As it stands, we cant just throw files into static and have it be immediately routable on the server.

With a custom server, we can add routes that point to static files for crawlers (example: robots.txt)

This issue explains further.

What should your feature do?

Something similar to this in <rootDir>/server.js

Warning, do not copy-paste:

const robotsOptions = {
  root: __dirname + '/static/',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'text/plain;charset=UTF-8',
  }
};
server.get('/robots.txt', (req, res) => (
  res.status(200).sendFile('robots.txt', robotsOptions)
));

const sitemapOptions = {
  root: __dirname + '/static/',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'text/xml;charset=UTF-8',
  }
};
server.get('/sitemap.xml', (req, res) => (
  res.status(200).sendFile('sitemap.xml', sitemapOptions)
));

const faviconOptions = {
  root: __dirname + '/static/'
};
server.get('/favicon.ico', (req, res) => (
  res.status(200).sendFile('favicon.ico', faviconOptions)
));

[sethbergman]

Thanks @kylemh I have been busy working at Dell. I made this issue before I started, and I’m going to open it up for other contributors. I apologise for the late response @dmarchante.

[kylemh]

@ssiddhantsharma he was making an issue for himself to resolve. Consider this work assigned 👍