Routes are not matched by react-router(-redux)

Question

I'm stuck creating a single page app using react, redux, react-router and react-redux-router bindings.

The route http://localhost:3001/register is simply not matched by the router and Cannot GET /register is returned to the browser because the server obviously doesn't know the route. I'm relatively new to the react-redux stack and may be missing something pretty basic.

Edit: The IndexRoute is working and is displaying the Home-Component inside the App-Compontent.

Edit2: I'm not using server side rendering and am developing using the webpack-dev-server.

But here are the related code-snippets so far:

entry.js

const store = createStore( 
    reducer, //from reducers.js
    applyMiddleware(routerMiddleware(browserHistory))
);

const history = syncHistoryWithStore(browserHistory, store);

render(
    <Provider store={store}>
        <Router history={history} routes={routes} />  //routes from routes.js
    </Provider>,
    document.getElementById('app')
 );

reducers.js

const rootReducer = combineReducers({
    RegisterForm,
    routing: routerReducer //provided by react-router-redux
});

export default rootReducer;

routes.js

const routes = (
    <Route path='/' component={App}>
        <IndexRoute component={Home} />
        <Route name='register' path='register' component={RegisterForm} />
    </Route>
);

export default routes;

Navigation.jsx (rendered inside App.jsx)

import React from 'react';
import {Link} from 'react-router';

export default class Navigation extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="mdl-layout mdl-js-layout mdl-layout--fixed-header">

        <header className="mdl-layout__header">
          <div className="mdl-layout__header-row">
            <span className="mdl-layout-title">there!</span>
            <div className="mdl-layout-spacer"></div>
            <nav className="mdl-navigation mdl-layout--large-screen-only">
              <Link className="mdl-navigation__link" to="/">Home</Link>
              <Link className="mdl-navigation__link" to="register">Register</Link>
            </nav>
          </div>
        </header>

        <div className="mdl-layout__drawer">
          <span className="mdl-layout-title">there!</span>
          <nav className="mdl-navigation">
            <Link className="mdl-navigation__link" to="/">Home</Link>
            <Link className="mdl-navigation__link" to="register">Register</Link>
          </nav>
        </div>

        <main className="mdl-layout__content">
          <div className="page-content">
            {this.props.children}
          </div>
        </main>

      </div>
    );
  }
}

Maybe it is obvious to someone, what I am missing here. If you need more of the code please let me know.

Answer 1

As you say, the problem is that your backend does not know how to handle requests to /register. The solution is to tell your backend to return the react application (same as requests to /) on such requests.

If you are developing with pure webpack-dev-server I'm not 100% sure what's the best way to do this, but you can take a look at the answer here which will probably work: Stating directive templateUrl relative to root