SEO Friendly URL's from migration and shallow linking

[brideo]

Hey,

I am currently migrating a platforms frontend to use Next.JS.

The website is made up of products and categories, the url is made from the product name or the category name.

For example:

Page Type	Page ID	Name	Url
category	1	Tablets	/tablets
category	2	Phones	/phones
product	1	iPad 4th gen	/ipad-4th-gen

So we do not have to setup a bunch of redirects, in the express server I lookup the route information from an API and change the request url to match the routing used in next:

• /product/1
• /category/1

This seems to work well, however, I don't know if it's possible to do shallow linking with this method? Say I wanted to link to a different category, is there a way I can do something like this?

    <ul>
      <li>
        <Link href="/category/[id]" as="/category/2" seoUrl="/iphones">
          <a>iPhones</a>
        </Link>
      </li>
    </ul>

If this isn't possible, can somebody point me in the direction of the code where I could possibly change the users route? If not I guess I will bite the bullet and redirect the existing urls.

[jamesmosier]

You may be able to use either redirects or rewrites and then get rid of your custom Express server.

[brideo]

I'm trying to avoid from redirects at the moment, if that's not possible I will go that route, thanks for the info.

[7iomka]

I'm trying to avoid from redirects at the moment, if that's not possible I will go that route, thanks for the info.

Hi, you found any solution?