Route tolerance for trailing slash

ENVIRONMENT

$ yarn rw --version
0.0.1-alpha.31

PROBLEM

I’d like both /url and /url/ to match a single route.

Currently, if I use <Route path="/posts" ...> that will match URL /posts but not /posts/. If I change the route to <Route path="/posts/" ...>, it matches /posts/ but not /posts.

When using React-Router, this is easy to solve using a combination of the strict and exact parameters, something like <Route strict={false} exact={true} path="/posts/" ...>.

Is there an option to the Redwood Route object that controls tolerance for trailing slashes?

A regex for path-matching could also be a good approach.

[mojombo]

@chris-hailstorm It’s an artifact of the implementation that regex syntax currently works in routes. I expect that will go away so that we can do an optimized parser-based route matcher in the future, but I need to think about it more.

Regarding trailing slashes, we could add a trailingSlashes option on Router that could be one of:

never - Always strip trailing slashes from URLs before matching.
always - Always add trailing slashes to URLs before matching.
preserve - Keep trailing slashes as-is before matching.

Probably we would default to never. Would this solve your use case, or did you have some other requirement in mind?

[tctrautman]

Hello! I just ran up against this in one of my Redwood Projects. Just wanted to drop a note here to mention that I’d find this feature helpful, and I appreciate all that you all are doing to make Redwood awesome 😄