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Implementing regex-based redirects on Azure Static Web Apps using Azure Functions

@DamirArh

22d ago· 3 min readen

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Summary

A developer describes the challenge of implementing redirects when migrating a blog to Azure Static Web Apps. The built-in routing isn't flexible enough for complex redirect patterns, so the author explores using Azure Functions (managed APIs) to handle redirects via String.replace() methods, inspired by a blog post from John Reilly about server-side rendered Nuxt apps.

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bskyImplementing regex-based redirects on Azure Static Web Apps using Azure Functionsdamirscorner.com

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The biggest challenge of moving my blog to Azure Static Web Apps were the redirects.

Routes in Azure Static Web Apps aren't nearly flexible enough to cover my needs.

Most of my redirects could be implemented with a String.replace() method

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The biggest challenge of moving my blog to Azure Static Web Apps were the redirects. I still support permalinks from my previous blog engine and I previously used back-references in IIS rewrite module to handle redirects for them. Routes in Azure Static W

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