🚀 Nginx Redirect Generator {NRG} 🚀

NRG (pronounced "energy") was created to simplify and standardize the way that redirects are implimented in NGINX.

🌟 Features 🌟

• import redirects from file
  • .txt
  • .csv
• default logic is used for generation
  • Example: rewrite ^/oldthing/?$ https://www.something.com/newthing/ permanent;

⚠️ Notes ⚠️

• currently no custom logic
• no .xlsx support "Convert with this tool to .csv"
• query strings are removed and not currently generated as location query redirects
• large files will lock the browser "lets keep it below 10k rows 😉"

🎉 Resources 🎉

• Spredsheet template for redirects
• How to format NGINX redirects/rewrites
• .xlsx to .csv converter

🚗 Roadmap 🚗

Love this - https://mango-is.com/tools/csv-to-json/

• select all inside code will only select code
• impliment ClipboardJS on generated redirects
  • do this
• load test and ensure perf
  • currently locks browser on 50k and 100k .csv
  • perhaps use lodash for generateRedirects()
  • add PapaParse Worker "may need to add source of PapaParse to repo for this"
• add options menu
  • push out style menu
  • dark mode
  • don't force source URL to string
  • first line contains URLs and not headers "PapaParse - header: false"
• look for queries in source URLs and automagically create location query redirects for them
• allow for NGINX redirects as input for possible cleanup and allow for .conf file upload
  • test for comments...either remove all or find a way to keep
• explore options for generating new NGINX blocks with redirects "secondary domain specific redirects or External Rewrites"
  • ...this could get tricky. Might be best to leave this out and have them use the generator for rewrites within that block.
• create a separate front end for creating and visualizing source/destination URLS before generating "NGINX Redirct Builder??"
  • import from file or text and convert to JSON with PapaParse
  • checkboxes/toggles for features (advanced mode toggle from menu)
    • case insenstivie (?i)
    • starting with carrot ^
    • conditional trailing slash /?
    • stop at end of sting $
    • 301 or 302 permanent, redirect + allow for all other NGINX options here break, last, etc.
    • add/ensure trailing slash in source URL
    • remove trailing slash
    • add global options for all checkboxes "apply to all"
  • save sheet by default at randomized link for sharing or revisiting
    • allow for checkbox to not save current sheet
    • allow for private sheets "probably not...these should not be indexed anyway"
  • save sheet to .csv file "including options"
  • button to check HTTP status of all destinations/targets
    • example for Google Sheets
    • might be able to do this in the browser via Chai/Chai HTTP
      • this could have two tests - one to check if the status code matches and the other to check if the destination matches
• create app for testing NGINX Config - docker example
  • perhaps create an app on Zeit for this
• may want to impliment my own form of syntax highlighting since we will know all syntax used

Changelog

will start at 1.0.0