Implementing hashChange Navigation
The B4 application weâre developing is what you might call a single-page application. The behavior of the application is driven by user interaction, and the data is supplied by RESTful JSON APIs.
Rather than request from the server new pages that live at different URLs, the user requests only the first page and its dependent content (JavaScript, CSS, images, etc.) up front. This raises the question of how to implement and track changes to the application as the user navigates through it.
For this, weâll use the URL hash: the part of the URL after the pound sign (#). Weâll refer to each page the user might encounter as a view. The welcome view will live at #welcome, which will also be the default if the ...
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