How to render a specific page on the server?

[Konrad Jarosinski]

Hi. Great boilerplate!

I'm almost done with my authentication system, but there's one thing that's bugging me a bit.

I'm in the process of implementing the account activation - so when someone clicks on the activation link from the e-mail, server validates the token and displays appropriate message.

Because the routing is set up so React has the final word on rendering the template, I'm left with letting react-router do the redirect and sending an ajax request back to the server.
That feels a bit weird to send an api request to the server from the VM, doesn't it?

So the question is, how can I handle the HTTP request before the template gets rendered by VM?
I could use a middleware, but I think it's not the right tool for handling regular HTTP requests.

[Oleg Lebedev]

Hi,
the short answer is use echo's routing for this.
Take a look at this. that means that react VM will be used only for undefined urls. So, define url and handle it at server directly.

That feels a bit weird to send an api request to the server from the VM, doesn't it?

Nope, it's totally ok. But for more performance, you are able to use method above.

[Konrad Jarosinski]

Thanks, I managed to get that done by moving the react.go to a separate package, and then within my route handler, I'm calling React.Handle(c) to render the view :)