Example app-router setup to get you running locally.

Download and un-zip the examples.

Hash routing uses hash paths /#/paths.

1. Open a terminal in the hash-routing directory
2. Start a static content server with node http-server or python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
3. Open http://localhost:8080/

Push state routing uses regular paths /path and extends <a> tags with the pushstate-anchor.

<a is="pushstate-anchor" href="/home">Home</a>

1. Open a terminal in the pushstate-routing directory
2. Start the express.js server with node server.js
3. Open http://localhost:8080/

Examples of app-router, flatiron-director, and plain old HTML files. https://github.com/erikringsmuth/polymer-router-demos

Examples of HTTP Server configurations to get pushstate working.

Apache .htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore /
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.html

Nginx Conf - to be inserted in your server{} declaration

location / {
  try_files $uri @rewrites /index.html;
}
# If no asset matches, send it to your javascript app. Hopefully it's a route in the app!
location @rewrites {
  rewrite .* /index.html last;
}