Out of the box, Single Page Application (SPA) handle what we call soft 404. When you deploy to Netlify, we will see a page like this one:
To avoid that, it is as simple as adding a _redirects file in the public directory of the application and adding the following:
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This lets the SPA handle the 404 as a soft 404.
See this forum thread for more usecases.
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