Enable apiProxy.enabled and pushState without making apiProxy.prefix required

[tamakisquare]

I like how the dev server provided by Lineman supports server-side APIs and HTML5 pushState. The increase in my productivity is beyond what words can describe. Thanks to the wonderful team behind the project.

But there's one minor inflexibility when both API proxy and HTML5 pushState emulation are both used - apiProxy.prefix must be supplied. I understand that the prefix is needed to determine whether a request should be forwarded to the API proxy. Instead of using a prefix, I would like to propose forwarding only requests that are XmlHttpRequest and serve index.html for ordinary HTTP requests.

Any thoughts?

[davemo]

I would support something like this, but I think we also need to consider that API requests may be made via other protocols like WebSockets, SSE etc..

[tamakisquare]

@davemo - You are right. I overlooked that. I am not familiar with the other protocols. Do you think it's possible to identify all protocols that API requests can be made with?