Hi Miro! If I'm following correctly, depending on the desired behavior this could be set up as either a catch-all route or a middleware, something similar to the below should do. Also, AdonisJS uses good ol' NodeJS under the hood node:http.

Catch All Route

Use a catch-all route when the redirects should not overwrite any of your defined AdonisJS routes.

You can add this route to the end of your AdonisJS route definitions that way if none of your application routes match the request, it'll be used.

// 👆 all other routes

router.get('*', async ({ request, response }) => {
  const url = request.url()
  const redirectTo = 'https://duckduckgo' // 👈 check your api for a redirect

  if (!redirectTo) {
    return response.notFound()
  }

  return response.redirect(redirectTo)
})

  

    

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Middleware

You can either create it as an global HTTP or a named middleware.

• Global HTTP will run on any matched route in your app.

• Named middleware only runs on the routes you apply the middleware to

export default class RedirectMiddleware {
  async handle({ request, response }: HttpContext, next: NextFn) {
    const url = request.url()
    const redirectTo = 'https://duckduckgo' // 👈 check your api for a redirect

    if (redirectTo) {
      // 👇 stop the request here and redirect 
      return response.redirect(redirectTo)
    }

    // 👇 continue with request to other middleware & route handler
    return next()
  }
}

  

    

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You can also optionally cache your API responses as you see fit as well so you don't have to relay back to it with every request.

Hope this helps!