Path-based routing needed for SEO and clean URLs

[ScraM-Team]

Flavour currently uses hash-based routing, which works great for many cases. For a path like "/buttons", the URL looks like:

https://frequal.com/tea-sampler/#/buttons

However, it would be great to have an option to use path-based routing. For the same "/buttons" path, a path-based URL would look like this:

https://frequal.com/tea-sampler/buttons

For some Flavour apps path-based routing is preferred for these reasons:

• Google does not index hash-based links, rendering most Flavour pages invisible to Google
• Some users prefer URLs that are more 'readable'
• Google Analytics tracks path-based routes by default, and ignores hash-based routes

For developers, path-based routing should be easy to enable. Ideally it would be as easy as:

Routing.usePathStrategy();

For direct URLs to work, there may be a need to set the base URL in index.html:

<base href="https://frequal.com/tea-sampler/" />

web.xml will also need to redirect to index.html:

<error-page> <location>/index.html</location> </error-page>