How can I make my navbar dissapear on a specific page?

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Hi @lazi. I'm kapa.ai, your friendly support bot. I will try to answer your question by searching through the knowledge base. :wave: ---------------------- Currently, Wasp doesn't support layouts out of the box, which means you can't easily define a layout (like a navbar) that is applied to all pages and then exclude it from a specific page. This feature is being discussed in an open Github issue (https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp/issues/985). However, you can manually control the visibility of your navbar based on the current route. You can use the useLocation hook from react-router-dom to get the current route, and then conditionally render your navbar based on that. Here's a basic example:

import { useLocation } from 'react-router-dom'
import Navbar from './Navbar'

const Layout = () => {
  const location = useLocation()

  return (
    <div>
      {location.pathname !== '/your-specific-page' && <Navbar />}
      {/* rest of your layout */}
    </div>
  )
}

import { useLocation } from 'react-router-dom'
import Navbar from './Navbar'

const Layout = () => {
  const location = useLocation()

  return (
    <div>
      {location.pathname !== '/your-specific-page' && <Navbar />}
      {/* rest of your layout */}
    </div>
  )
}

In this example, the Navbar component will not be rendered when the current route is '/your-specific-page'. You'll need to replace '/your-specific-page' with the path of the page where you want to hide the navbar. Remember to replace Navbar and Layout with your actual components. ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ---------------------- Sorry @lazi, I seem to be having a bit of trouble. Don't worry though, I've pinged my support and they will try to fix me up! :technologist: Perhaps try again in 15mins?

laziOP•2mo ago

Nevermind, fixd it. For future reference - It's from App.tsx, adding a new path to shouldDisplayAppNavBar @kapa.ai I have a slight problem now, I have an "open" page but i can't access it via direct link to that path, i get a Page not found. It only works if I go through the landing page first. how can i make it work directly? //#region Translator route TranslatorRoute { path: "/translator", to: TranslatorPage } page TranslatorPage { component: import { TranslatorPage } from "@src/chatbot/TranslatorPage.tsx", }

kapa.ai•2mo ago

Let me check the knowledge base for you again. One moment! :books: ---------------------- Based on the information provided, it seems like you're experiencing a problem similar to the one discussed in this Github issue (https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp/issues/1612). The issue is that direct access to a URL with a trailing slash results in a 404 error, but the page loads correctly when accessed from the landing page. This could be due to the configuration of your server or hosting environment. If you're using GitHub Pages and Docusaurus, as mentioned in the Github issue, you might need to tweak your Docusaurus configuration. One possible solution is to ensure that your server redirects URLs with a trailing slash to the ones without. However, the exact implementation would depend on your tech stack and the level of control you have over your server's behavior. If you're serving your Wasp app from a subdirectory, you might need to set the baseDir option in your Wasp configuration, as described in the Wasp documentation (https://wasp-lang.dev/docs/project/client-config#base-directory). This ensures that the router works correctly and all assets are served from the correct directory. Here's an example of how to set the baseDir option:

app MyApp {  
 title: "My app",  
 // ...  
 client: {  
 baseDir: "/my-app",  
 }  
}

app MyApp {  
 title: "My app",  
 // ...  
 client: {  
 baseDir: "/my-app",  
 }  
}

In this example, replace "/my-app" with the subdirectory from which you're serving your app. Also, ensure that the WASP_WEB_CLIENT_URL environment variable includes the base directory. If none of these solutions work, it might be a good idea to open an issue in the Wasp Github repository to get help from the Wasp community. ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ---------------------- Sorry @lazi, I seem to be having a bit of trouble. Don't worry though, I've pinged my support and they will try to fix me up! :technologist: Perhaps try again in 15mins?

laziOP•2mo ago

@kapa.ai well, it's a page inside my website. I'm using fly.io to host the server side

kapa.ai•2mo ago

Let me check the knowledge base for you again. One moment! :books: ---------------------- If you're hosting your Wasp app on Fly.io and you're having trouble accessing a specific page directly via its URL, it might be due to the way your server handles routing. In a single-page application (SPA) like a Wasp app, all requests should be routed to the index.html file, which then uses JavaScript to determine what content to display based on the URL. However, if your server isn't configured to handle routing this way, it might try to find a file that matches the URL path, resulting in a 404 error when it doesn't find one. To fix this, you need to ensure that your server is configured to handle all requests by serving the index.html file. This is often referred to as a "catch-all" or "fallback" route. Unfortunately, the provided knowledge sources don't include specific instructions on how to configure a catch-all route on Fly.io. However, you can refer to the Fly.io documentation (https://fly.io/docs/) or reach out to their support for assistance. If you're using a custom domain with your Fly.io app, you also need to ensure that your DNS records are correctly configured. The Wasp documentation (https://wasp-lang.dev/docs/advanced/deployment/cli#using-a-custom-domain-for-your-app) provides instructions on how to set up a custom domain with a Fly.io app. If you're still having trouble, it might be a good idea to open an issue in the Wasp Github repository or ask for help in the Wasp Discord community. ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ---------------------- Sorry @lazi, I seem to be having a bit of trouble. Don't worry though, I've pinged my support and they will try to fix me up! :technologist: Perhaps try again in 15mins?

martinsos•2mo ago

Yup, since it is SPA, you need to have the routing for the client configured correctly on wherever you are hosting the client. Where are you hosting the client? Check this otu: https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp/issues/1982

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Properly document our client deployment · Issue #1982 · wasp-lang/w...

In production, our client is just a bunch of static files. When you input a non-existent file path into the address bar (or the browser tries to redirect to it), the navigation fails with a 404 - n...

laziOP•2mo ago

the client is hosted on netlify , backend on fly.io

martinsos•2mo ago

In taht case it should work fine, since we provide netlify.toml with the needed redirects in the config file, chekc this issue https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp/issues/1999 . MIght be that it doesn't work for you despite that? Or maybe you haven't copied the netlify.toml file taht we provide?

laziOP•2mo ago

I haven't gotten to try these fixes but I will ASAP and report back ^_^ Thank you!

martinsos•2mo ago

Awesome! Once you get it working, pls let me know what exactl was the problem and how you fixed it!

laziOP•2mo ago

Found the issue! It turns out the netlify.toml was NOT generating right.

[build] publish = ".wasp/build/web-app/build/" [[redirects]] from = "/*" to = "/index.html" status = 200 force = false

This above is the originally generated one. Problem is I'm using the OpenSaaS so my publish path needed was

[build] publish = "app/.wasp/build/web-app/build/" [[redirects]] from = "/*" to = "/index.html" status = 200 force = false

After this everything worked just fine 😄 ( I was getting it working by just cd-ing into the web-app/build then running the netlify command. from web-app/ i was getting a path not found error thingy)

martinsos•2mo ago

Oh hm! But wait, if you run netlify from the root of your Wasp app, which in open-saas is app/, then it would work, right? To put it differently: if you positinoed yourself next to main.wasp and run nelitfy from there, then it would be fine, correct?

laziOP•2mo ago

Hmm I haven't actually tried that? I just followed this part from the tutorial which said to be positioned in the web-app folder

laziOP•2mo ago

Now re-reading that, it says to position there TO BUILD the web app, not for deployment. I just didn't connect the dots that i might need to change the dir i'm in then run the netlify commands (pretty much first time Netlify user). So it might be more of a me problem haha

martinsos•2mo ago

Hm actually @lazi you are right, we don't say to go up to the root of the project dir, and I believe that is intentional, so my mistake. But why does then netlify.toml contain the path that starts from projet root? That is what confuses me and is quite peculiar. Does Netlify know how to determine the project root dir, by searching for .git/ or something like that? Ok, I did some digging now, and yes it does! So this is a mistake on our side: assumed how far is git repo root going to be, which we shouldn't have assumed. I opened an issue for this here, we will be taking this one on pretty soon: https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp/issues/2352 . Thanks a lot for pointing this one out!

laziOP•2mo ago

Y'all are awesome 😄

martinsos•2mo ago

Ha thanks, but vice versa also :)!

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How can I make my navbar dissapear on a specific page?