Programmatically/dynamically define pages

[OrangeTimes]

Description

Current Vike API doesn't provide any way how to programmatically create a custom file route for situations when +Page.ts or +Page.js are created externally on the filesystem or in another dynamic fashion.

Note: onBeforeRoute hook does provide some access to _allPageIds, _pageRoutes, _pageConfigs in pageContext but this seems very brittle and not recommended and its functionality is still not enough to define a new working file route

[brillout]

Use case: #1661.

@OrangeTimes I don't think there is any React/Vue/Solid(/...) framework out there that supports this?

[OrangeTimes]

Yes, Next.Js and other similar frameworks don't support this at the moment

[doeixd]

This is possible with Solid Start and Nuxt. I think

https://nuxt.com/docs/guide/recipes/custom-routing

https://docs.solidjs.com/solid-start/building-your-application/routing#additional-route-config
(FilesystemRoutes component returns an object which you can add to)

https://remix.run/docs/en/main/discussion/routes#manual-route-configuration

[brillout]

If you know some links to their docs about it that would be great.

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[doeixd]

I edited the post with some docs links. Sorry

[brillout]

Thank you!

[OrangeTimes]

This is possible with Solid Start and Nuxt. I think

https://nuxt.com/docs/guide/recipes/custom-routing

https://docs.solidjs.com/solid-start/building-your-application/routing#additional-route-config (FilesystemRoutes component returns an object which you can add to)

https://remix.run/docs/en/main/discussion/routes#manual-route-configuration

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Remix it will be evaluated one time and not on each request. If I need to push a new file route on some incoming request condition (create a file route on the fly) this will not work most probably.

[doeixd]

Thats correct.

For your use case, I'd suggest just using a client side router (Whose routes can be added to on the server / client) + a backend service that you write that will ssr the pages manually.

[OrangeTimes]

We currently have a very custom and quite old SSR server. If there was a way to create file routes on the fly using onBeforeRoute for example it would drastically simplify things for us and our existing setup and would unblock us from adopting Vike potentially.