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169 points fanf2 | 1 comments | 08 Apr 25 08:42 UTC | HN request time: 1.711s | source
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chabska ◴[08 Apr 25 09:23 UTC] No.43619770[source]▶
> In practice, this is virtually impossible to get right

Somehow every other JS frontend framework manages to hook into the History API just fine?

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1. swiftcoder ◴[08 Apr 25 09:32 UTC] No.43619818[source]▶
They do, but mostly they make this work by recreating the entire frontend ecosystem within that framework. Mix-and-match a history-aware JS library from outside the framework's ecosystem, and you may find it's less robust than you expect.