I want to re-open this I think it'd be valuable to generate a site map, regardless of hash mode. Some people will use the non-hash mode in which case it is useful. Also we have SSR (being fixed in a current PR) and upcoming plans for static site generation, both of which would benefit from a sitemap.

According to this article from 2014, Google can index hash-based routes as separate pages if using a "hash bang" syntax: instead of making your pages have the form example.com/#/some/page they should be of the form example.com/#!/some/page and then Google will consider the hash as part of the URL. Hash-bang is not required anymore since 2018 according to Google.

What's the latest on hash-based routing and SEO?

EDIT:

According to official words from Google (see links in that article), people are straight up confused (look at the comments). It isn't clear if hash routing works with Google SEO. If you follow and read all the related tweets, you will be confused. In particular, see these two seemingly contradictory tweets:

EDIT: According to https://searchengineland.com/google-can-crawl-ajax-just-fine-322254, hashes should be SEO friendly now, and the Google crawler understands hash-based routing (follow hash changes) and indexes content on dynamic page changes (hash changes).

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