is this approach to Flask routing reasonable?

Question

I am making every path lead to index.html, since it is a single page app. I made a blueprint called mod and put all the restul api there using flask-restful

@mod.route('/')
@mod.route('/<path:p>')
def home(p=0):
    return render_template('index.html')

is this right way to do it? I am little concerned about p=0 part. the variable p is never used, but has to be there since it has to receive path variable p

`p=0` shouldn't matter if you are never using the variable `p`, but might this logic be implemented in the server config? — Paul Rooney, May 05 '15 at 10:16

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 05 '15 at 10:39

Your routing is certainly reasonable.

A more simple/readible way of doing it might be:

@mod.route('/')
@mod.route('/<path>')
def home(*args, **kwargs):
    return render_template('index.html')

From an efficiency standpoint its probably better to handle this entirely on the webserver (nginx/apache/whatever).

is this approach to Flask routing reasonable?

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