Sails.js Single Page Application (SPA) — redirect all missing/unused routes to a single controller action

Question

I'm developing a single page application (SPA) using Sails.js as a backend. All I want is to redirect all routes to a single controller action.

However, when I do the following:

// config/routes.js
module.exports.routes = {
  'GET *': 'MainController.application'
};

All requests are getting redirected to my application route, even for static files like CSS/JavaScript, etc. Is there an easy way to fallback to my application route when there is no other means to handle it?

I want:

1. All static files to be served directly (JS, CSS, HTML partials)
2. All specific routes to be handled as is
3. In other case redirect to a single entry-point controller

Answer 1

After thorough re-reading of the docs I've found a skipAssets route parameter.

Here's my new configuration:

// config/routes.js
module.exports.routes = {
  'GET *': {
    controller: 'MainController',
    action: 'application',
    skipAssets: true
  }
};

Looks like it's working as required.