Generate per-route redirects in Vercel build output instead of per-page
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Description
Describe the problem
In order to get the correct trailing slash redirect behaviour for prerendered pages on Vercel, it's necessary to add an override plus two routes for each page:
{
"version": 3,
"routes": [
// ...
{
"src": "/docs/introduction",
"dest": "/docs/introduction/"
},
{
"src": "/docs/introduction/",
"status": 308,
"headers": {
"Location": "/docs/introduction"
}
},
{
"src": "/docs/configuration",
"dest": "/docs/configuration/"
},
{
"src": "/docs/configuration/",
"status": 308,
"headers": {
"Location": "/docs/configuration"
}
},
// ...
],
"overrides": {
// ...
"docs/introduction.html": {
"path": "docs/introduction"
},
"docs/configuration.html": {
"path": "docs/configuration"
},
// ...
}
}
Since there's a limit to how many routes you can have in a project, this means that there's also a (quite low) limit on the number of prerendered pages.
Describe the proposed solution
We should be able to create a pair of Vercel redirect routes for each SvelteKit route, instead of for each prerendered page:
{
"version": 3,
"routes": [
// ...
{
"src": "/docs/([^/]+)",
"dest": "/docs/$1/"
},
{
"src": "/docs/([^/]+)/",
"status": 308,
"headers": {
"Location": "/docs/$1"
}
},
// ...
],
"overrides": {
// ...
"docs/introduction.html": {
"path": "docs/introduction"
},
"docs/configuration.html": {
"path": "docs/configuration"
},
// ...
}
}
(I actually can't recall why the first of those is necessary in the trailingSlash: 'never' case, need to investigate.)
The challenge will be to do this while respecting edge cases like this...
src/routes/[a=b]/+page.svelte
src/routes/[c]/+page.svelte
...where the two routes have different trailingSlash config and /[a=b] is a prerendered route that shouldn't prevent /[c] from matching.
Alternatives considered
No response
Importance
would make my life easier
Additional Information
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing how Vercel build output generates per-prerendered-page redirects and overrides, using the route examples in src/routes/[a=b]/+page.svelte and src/routes/[c]/+page.svelte as edge cases. Investigate why the first redirect is needed for trailingSlash: 'never'. Done means generating per-SvelteKit-route redirect pairs while preserving distinct trailingSlash settings and correct matching for prerendered routes.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- build-system, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100