How to implement routing with a single page application build solely using jQuery
Solution 1
So, the approach you you need is to listen to hash changes in the url and based on this get the current page and render it in a cointainer. Something like this:
<a href="#page2">Go to Page 2</a>
<div class="page-container"></div>
<script>
$(window).on('hashchange',function(){
var page = window.location.hash;
$.get('pages/'+page+'.html', function(pageContent){
$('.page-container').html(pageContent);
})
});
</script>
Solution 2
Thank you every one. So I ended up using a combination between @Tulio Faria
's answer and @Gabriele Mantovani
.
- To get the search keyword from url I used
window.location.hash
- To update url used
history.pushState({id: 'query'}, '', 'some_url_string');
- Used
$(window).on('hashchange',function(){...})
to load page of the current search keyword if either back or forward buttons of browser were clicked
unbalanced_equation
Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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unbalanced_equation almost 2 years
Right now when the user inputs a word in the textfield and hits search, the form submits using
$.get()
. The data(JSON) is fetched from the server and then the UI is updated.What I want to do is pretty simple:
1) When the form submits, the URL of the browser needs to update (something like
search/zyx
,zyx
is what the user is searching for).2) when the page is booked into favorites, or clicked as a link from somewhere the page needs to load and then the textfield value have to be 'zyx'. Also the UI needs to show search result of
zyx
.This is important to my app because I will be using Google Analytics. So the URL is needed to reflect behaviour. Plus the other issue like back button history. Is this possible using just jQuery or some extremely light libraries build on jQuery. I have searched everywhere and all the solutions I found were using MVC frameworks. Or another solution was to use a templating framework like this one. However my app is way too simple for these solutions.
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unbalanced_equation over 7 yearsThanks for your suggestion @llphrin but
window.location.replace(url)
will cause the page to refresh and that defies the whole purpose of app as being a single page application -
Crash Override about 4 yearsthis will reload the page