✨ Proxy the Interactors website directly.

[cowboyd]

Motivation

The Interactors website had been proxied by netlify in our Gatsby legacy site to interactors site also running on netlify. We want to cut out the middleman and serve the interactors site directly. This will not only be faster in the short term. It will also set us up long-term to use sitemaps to build the entire frontside.com statically.

// before
Deno(fs.com) -> Netlify(Gatsby) -> Netlify(Docusaurus)

// after
Deno(fs.com) -> Deno(Docusaurus)

Approach

This enhances proxy routes to take on serving static docusaurus sites. It does two things. 1) It accepts a root parameter which gives the root path on the proxy site that we start serving from. 2) we enhance the proxy generally so that if it receives a redirect to itself, then it will also proxy the redirect rather than go to the source site. In other words suppose we make this request.

GET https://localhost:8005/interactors

which delegates to

https://interactors.deno.dev/interactors

But that response with a redirect:

301: Moved Permanently
Location: https://interactors.deno.dev/interactors/home/

We don't want the browser to redirect there. Instead, we want it to redirect back to itself:

301: Moved Permanently
Location: https:/localhost:8005/interactors/home/

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