Reintroduce flat routing

[Brendonovich]

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What is the current behavior?

Changes to nested route escaping in RC0 broke what was essentially flat routing, where files/folders named along the lines of a.b.c would have their path become a/b/c. This is useful for reducing folder nested. Whether it was an intentional behaviour previously I'm not sure, but I'd like it to be there.

What is the new behavior?

Adds back the . -> / regex that was removed in RC0, bringing back flat route support.

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Having flat routing alongside nested routing does add the potential for multiple definitions of the same route, but IMO the convenience outweighs that risk

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[ryansolid]

One thing I wasn't sure about here was what this did for people who wanted . in the path. I added it to solve unnesting very briefly and almost immediately regretted it. That's why I went back against this because I could already picture the issues being opened when someone made route.json.ts and it wasn't at route.json. There are cases where people make extension specific routes at minimum. Especially for known things like... manifest.json etc. I know Remix does flat routing. Did they ever solve this?

[Brendonovich]

Looks like Remix use [] to escape characters, whether that's individual periods with manifest[.]json.ts or entire file names like [manifest.json].ts. They use $ as their dynamic route prefix similar to how SS uses : so there's no conflict with dynamic files, but they also use $.ts on its own (which i quite like tbh) to do splat routes, whereas for us doing something like [...rest].tsx would conflict with our splat routes.