Sometimes, we want to tell Webpack dev server to serve index.html for any route.

In this article, we’ll look at how to tell Webpack dev server to serve index.html for any route.

How to tell Webpack dev server to serve index.html for any route?

To tell Webpack dev server to serve index.html for any route, we can set the historyApiFallback.index property to 'index.html'.

For instance, we write

devServer: {
  port: 3000,
  historyApiFallback: {
    index: 'index.html'
  }
}

to set the historyApiFallback.index property to 'index.html' to make the Webpack dev server serve index.html for any route.

Conclusion

To tell Webpack dev server to serve index.html for any route, we can set the historyApiFallback.index property to 'index.html'.