Recently I had to ship an Angular2/Angular4 application within a Spring boot WAR packaged application and I was having some issues when dealing with the the urls in the angular routes, since it goes through the DispatcherServlet I was getting 404 all over the place
There are a few ways to handle this, below is my preferred solution :
@Controller public class Angular2ViewController { @RequestMapping({"/books", "/login", "/admin", "/logout", "/configure"}) public String index() { return "forward:/index.html"; } }
There you go, as easy as that
The inconvenience about this solution is that you have to maintain a set of urls in your controller also