backend: added catch all redirect to index so that /about does not fail to load in production

backend/src/CatchAllRedirect.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import {Express, NextFunction, Request, RequestHandler, Response} from 'express';
+
+export default function catchAllRedirect(app: Express, path: string): RequestHandler {
+  return (req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) => {
+    req.url = path;
+    (app as any).handle(req, res); //handle() is not exposed by .d.ts files
+  };
+}

backend/src/main.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {MangaUpdatesCache} from './cache/MangaUpdatesCache.js';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import {MangaDexCache} from './cache/MangaDexCache';
 import mangaDexRouter from './router/MangaDexRouter';
+import catchAllRedirect from './CatchAllRedirect';
 import exceptionHandler from './ExceptionHandler';
 
 const config = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('config.json').toString());
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ app.use('/anilist', aniListRouter());
 app.use('/mangadex', mangaDexRouter(mangaDexCache));
 app.use('/mangaupdates', mangaUpdatesRouter(mangaUpdatesCache));
 app.use(express.static('_client')); //for production
+app.use(catchAllRedirect(app, '/'));
 app.use(exceptionHandler());
 
 //start