On repl.it, running flask works fine with something like
@app.route("/home")
def home():
return render_template("home.html")
As the home template is rendered in the inspector
However, running
@app.route("/")
def base_route():
return redirect(url_for("home"))
@app.route("/home")
def home():
return render_template("home.html")
Fails to render the page. No errors/exceptions are thrown.
Is this an issue with repl, or is the code just wrong?
The problem is on replit inspector side.
If you try with curl, you will see the redirect happens to url '/home'.
Also, in the upper right button of the inspector
there is button that let you open your website/web app in a separate tab or window. There, from a regular browser window, the redirect will work. Or make index/root render template and redirect \home page to index\root, the problem seems to be specific to the root url.
I think you can discuss it in replit talk, it looks like a bug to me.