asp.net-mvc Routing Catch-all route for enabling client-side routing
Example
It's a good practice to encode state of Single Page Application (SPA) in url:
my-app.com/admin-spa/users/edit/id123
This allows to save and share application state.
When user puts url into browser's address bar and hits enter server must ignore client-side part of the requested url. If you serve your SPA as a rendered Razor view (result of calling controller's action) rather than a static html file, you can use a catch-all route:
public class AdminSpaController
{
[Route("~/admin-spa/{clienSidePart*}")]
ActionResult AdminSpa()
{
...
}
}
In this case server returns just SPA, and it then initializes itself according to the route. This approach is more flexible as it does not depend on url-rewrite module.
