How to set a default route for /admin

[aaronzomback]

Hello,

First, thank you for making this great package -

Perhaps I've missed this info in the guide - but how can we set a default route for the admin scope ?

When I access /admin it doesn't route by default to one of the live views - I get an error that the route does not exist. Of course it's only when I access one of the defined sub routes with corresponding live view, i.e. /admin/posts/ that it works.

I'm still farely new to the Elixir/Phx world so bear with me if I am missing something obvious.

Thanks for any insight.

Aaron

[Flo0807]

Hey @aaronzomback!

You can create a (redirect) controller for this use case.

In your router.ex file:

scope "/admin", MyAppWeb do
  get "/", RedirectController, :redirect_to_posts
end

For example, in my_app_web/controller create a file named redirect_controller.ex:

defmodule MyAppWeb.RedirectController do
  use MyAppWeb, :controller

  def redirect_to_posts(conn, _params) do
    conn
    |> Phoenix.Controller.redirect(to: ~p"/admin/posts")
    |> Plug.Conn.halt()
  end
end

That's it!

[aaronzomback]

Hello @Flo0807 thanks so much, that solved it! I totally missed this line here:

backpex/demo/lib/demo_web/router.ex

Line 20 in b9a1654

get "/", RedirectController, :redirect_to_users

I would be happy to contribute perhaps a minor update to the documentation to point this out to new users - for me it wasn't completely obvious. Let me know if that's something that might interest you.

Cheers!

[Flo0807]

Let me know if that's something that might interest you.

Yes! Let's add a note to the docs so that others don't run into this problem. Feel free to open a Pull Request.

[aaronzomback]

@Flo0807 here it is #724 thanks again