need server-side *routing*, not rendering, and client-side blaze rendering. Is this possible?

[adamwong246]

I'm in the process of migrating our old-fashioned iron-router+blaze app, to a more modern flow-router+react stack.

IronRouter handled server-side routing for exactly 2 routes- sitemap.xml and robots.txt. Neither of these routes do any view-rendering- they write to the response directly. So there's no blaze OR react used on the server.

So how do I accomplish the same with FlowRouter? From what I understand, 4.0 doesn't support blaze at all and I can't upgrade the whole view to react. I just want to change the router first.

Is this doable?

[adamwong246]

Router.map ->
  @route 'robots',
    path: '/robots.txt'
    where: 'server'
    action: ->
      @response.writeHead 200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain; charset=UTF-8' }
      @response.write(robots.txt)
      @response.end()

  @route 'sitemap',
    path: '/sitemap.xml'
    where: 'server'
    action: ->
      @response.writeHead 200, { 'Content-Type': 'application/xml; charset=UTF-8' }
      @response.write "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n"

      siteMap = XmlBuilder.create('urlset')
      _.each Router.routes, (e) ->
        if e.options.siteMap
          url = siteMap.ele('url')
          loc = url.ele('loc', {}, e.url())
          if e.options.siteMap.priority
            url.ele('priority', {}, e.options.siteMap.priority)
          if e.options.siteMap.priority
            url.ele('changefreq', {}, e.options.siteMap.changefreq)

      @response.write siteMap.toString()
      @response.end()

[arunoda]

We don't and won't support Server Side Routes. But you can use Picker. See: https://github.com/meteorhacks/picker