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 If you write a single-page app where the routing is handled on its own, it works perfectly on your local host with the dev server. For an instance, if there is a route in your app for login such as "/login", if you try this in the localhost it will work without any issues.  If you host this with an Nginx server as a static web app, using the direct route in the URL will end up with 404. There is an easy fix for this updating the Nginx configurations.  Nginx default static site configuration is located in " /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf ". This may differ based on your installation and OS. However, the configurations are pretty much the same. You can add the following line to the configuration  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html?q= $uri&$args ; This makes the Nginx look for files in the file path, and if found then serve it. Or else, route the request to the index.html.  In our example, it will look for a file called login in the static directory, since we...