Shorter URLs channel and account + /@:actorName

[kimsible]

Description

Creates shorter URLs for channels and accounts.

Client side

• Add default routes /a/:accountName for accounts and /c/:accountName for channels
• /@:actorName displays:
  • /a/:accountName or /c/:channelName without the tab home (exemple: /c/mychannel/videos)
• Redirections :
  • /accounts/:accountName to /a/:accountName
  • /video-channels/:channelName to /c/:channelName

Server side

• OpenGraph and Twitter Card rendering + tests :
  • /accounts/:accountName for /a/:accountName and /@accountName
  • /video-channels/:channelName for /c/:channelName and @channelName
• New API route GET /api/v1/actors/:actorName to handle /@:actorName client route + test

Related issues

Partially resolves #3680

Has this been tested?

• 👍 yes, I added tests to the test suite

[kimsible]

Since the last commits now we can use :

• /@kimsible that displays /a/kimsible home
• /@kimsible_channel that displays /c/kimsible_channel home

Server side, a new API route is used for actors.
Client side, a new root component is used to get parameters of the home route (named RootComponent, maybe HomeComponent would be better?).

This way we could implement an URL even shorter for videos :
peertube.com/73WakrfVbNJBaAmhQtEeDv instead of peertube.com/v/73WakrfVbNJBaAmhQtEeDv

You can see more details in the updated description of this PR.

@Chocobozzz, did you have this feature implemented like that in mind? If it looks good to you, the issue #4011 might be resolved easily for channels after merging this one.

[kimsible]

@Chocobozzz @rigelk is there something you wait for this PR ? something I can do ? I thought it was related to UI/UX of channels / accounts profiles, do you plan to merge it after the 3.2 ?

[Chocobozzz]

Yes, I'll update and merge the PR for 3.3 because the resumable upload PR took a lot of my time.

[kimsible]

Yes, I'll update and merge the PR for 3.3 because the resumable upload PR took a lot of my time.

Thanks no pb ! I saw this huge PR, it's good to have releases size well-balanced.