What is the reason for redirecting the landing page of a site to a URL with '/#/' at the end?

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The system administrators at my company use a Apache reverse proxy, and they always redirect all the external websites to a landing page that ends with '/#/'.

For example:

https://example.com/springApp/#/

Is there any particular reason for this? I am a technical person, but I can't think of a reason for this. Just curious. NOTE: our website does NOT use page scroll anchors.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 18 '15 at 17:55

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JavaScript Single-page apps often use a hash to handle navigation within the app (clicking on a link in the application might update the hash to https://example.com/springApp/#/foo/bar, for example). It's becoming less common as the HTML5 History API becomes well supported, though.

edited Dec 18 '15 at 17:55

Joel Coel

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answered Dec 18 '15 at 17:53

ceejayoz

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Ok, that may be the explanation as the applications use Ember.js – djangofan Dec 18 '15 at 23:48

What is the reason for redirecting the landing page of a site to a URL with '/#/' at the end?

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