Maintaining pushState history through page reload

Working on a website utilizing AJAX and the browser history API for navigation has been my recent project.

While I have successfully managed to implement navigation for the back/forward buttons, an issue arises when the page is refreshed.

The problem stems from storing a default state and page title, which gets overwritten upon page reload, leading to confusion during navigation.

For instance, if my history stack contains: [Index, page 1, page 2], and I refresh while on page 2, the default state changes to page 2. Subsequently, navigating back causes a loop between page 2 and page 1 due to the popstate handler going to the default page when the state is null.

This seems to be a common issue faced by many, yet clear solutions are hard to come by in tutorials that primarily focus on back/forward functionality rather than addressing problems caused by refreshing.

I am currently searching for a sustainable solution to this dilemma. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

javascriptajaxpushstatehtml5-historypopstate

Answer №1

If you happen to come across this, I was able to resolve the issue by using replaceState.

Simply update the state with the initial page load state. This should fix any issues without needing to handle a null popState event.

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