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Re:Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny by VWWHFSfQ on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:42PM (#27988743)
This direct link will 404: https://app.cinny.in/login

But if you go to the homepage (index.html) and click on Login it will do the weird little SPA routing thing and load the page correctly.

I'm guessing netlify needs to route every URL path to the index.html?

SPA apps have just fundamentally broken the web.

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Re:Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny by httpsterio on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:47AM (#27992863)
No that's not a Netlify thing, it's most likely how the website is just configured.
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Re:Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny by rozenmd on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:14AM (#27992990)
That's not a SPA breaking the web, it's just misconfigured.
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Re:Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny by lucideer on Thursday July 29, 2021 @06:21AM (#27994779)
Technically yes, but the fact that SPAs require explicit and extra code/configuration to make them work when this functionality (url nav) is a works-by-default inherent part of the web's core design makes them arguably broken by design.
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