Routing without updating browser history?

[normelton]

Is it possible to use routing, but without making any changes to the browser's URL location? If someone refreshes the page, they would start over at the beginning.

[rehhouari]

Currently it's not possible but I can implement it. What would be the use case?

Note that this also means browser back and forward buttons would not work, however Pinecone Router got that functionality built in and that would work if you make your own buttons

[normelton]

I'm not sure my use case is very strong. Let's say someone goes to view an item ("example.com/items/1"), then clicks 'edit'. That would require rendering a new template, but it may not be desirable for this to be a new URL. If someone refreshes the page, they should go back to viewing the item. This can be accomplished by having a single page with a bunch of Alpine logic, but it seems like rendering templates is a great use for a router.

Could there be a named route without a URL?

Like I said, not certain this is a good idea or not.

[rehhouari]

I get it, so you want to separate the editing page from the actual page to not clutter things. but going back to the item page on refresh doesn't make much sense to me.
it's not usual unless it's like a modal which in this case isn't. wouldn't it be better to provide a button to stop editing?
only thing i can think of for this would be authentication but a handler could deal with that.

[rehhouari]

or do you have inline editing, like make text editable when editing rather than a dashboard style edit page?
in that case it would be better to keep things in one page since you'd have to update both pages on every change

[normelton]

Right. I'm thinking this would complicate & overload the utility of a client-side router. Thanks for thinking it through!

[rehhouari]

I added Settings.pushState property to toggle updating the URL. it didn't bloat anything and I thought it makes sense considering the router has a built-in history object
out now in 7.2.0

[normelton]

Sweet I'll check it out!