static page with param

[ornate gorge]

im making a search engine, and i want to have /q/urquery
but wanted it to be static, how do i make it dont need to set static path, or make it ssr?

[ornate gorge]

<@&1129102257422610512> help lol

[mortal adder]

If you want this in static, you have to have some kind of static list of search terms

Then you need a page that reads the query in JS on the client and queries your entries

In SSR you can do that easier in one step

[ornate gorge]

oh
no way to have astro ignoring the page url after /q/?

[mortal adder]

The static list is like a json page

You can use fetch to load that in on your actual search page

Also you can't do /q/term, because they have to be static paths, but you can do /q?query=term

[pliant flame]

You can do that on your deployment. That is outside the scope of Astro.

Astro will generate one page, you can have something like NGINX serve anything starting with /q/ as the same page (look for how to configure an SPA) and then you can make the search on the client side using JS or some UI framework

[mortal adder]

Also possible, but the nginx rewriting might be more difficult to figure out, unless it's vital your links must look like that

Otherwise I'd opt for the simpler solution of using the url query

[ornate gorge]

oh true
thought about this when i was eating

imma do this c:

[ornate gorge]

tysm