reactjs - Dot and hyphen disallowed React Router URL parameters?

Question

I am working to implement an image viewer and using React Router. Uploaded image files are of the format <name>.<type-suffix>-<date-tag>, with a period and a hypen as delimiters.

Given this route: <Route path="zoomer/:imageId" component={ Zoom }/> and this URL http://localhost:8080/zoomer/medMain.tif-1461839237863 it does not seem that the router is finding a match.

If I remove the dot and the hyphen (e.g. http://localhost:8080/zoomer/medMaintif1461839237863) routing works just fine, but I really need to keep those delimiters for semantic reasons. And URLEncode() won't help me here, either.

Is there something I need to do with the Route spec to fix this?

Answer 1

Adding this to your webpack devServer config also does the trick:

historyApiFallback: {
    disableDotRule: true
}