I came on this site to research a problem that I've been having regarding negating Backbone.js's history for certain elements. Thankfully, I came across this answer: here.
While it had provided a solution for me, the ultimate result was partial.
PROBLEM:
I am using Backbone.js for my navigation. I navigate to a route called "Portfolio" and then a number of images show up which can then be clicked again to view information. In order to render this information, I have it going through another route. The aforementioned resolution had me assigning the following code to negate these Portfolio links from being part of the History:
$(this).bind('click', function(e){
theSiteController.navigate('portfolio/portfolioSelection/' + i, {trigger:true, replace: true });
});
I had applied replace: false to the .navigate and it worked: whenever I hit the Back button, I would skip back to the origin page that I came from. HOWEVER, when I hit the Forward button in my browser, it points me back to the Portfolio link that I had clicked before, which looks like this:
#portfolio/portfolioSelection/4
I have it set to a different View, so I'm wondering if that has something to do with it.
QUESTION:
When I click the Forward button in my browser, how would I re-route it so that way it goes to
#portfolio
instead of
#portfolio/portfolioSelection/4
To view the site, please click here.
I apologize if this has been answered, but I can't seem to find a proper resolution.
Thank you, in advance, for your help!
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I have an ionic app that has a search template that has a form where you can query posts by keyword. I also have a service that returns the post(s) as a list on another view. All that is working well.
My search controller upon submitting the search form uses:
$state.go('app.search.results', {'searchId': hash});
so that I can have a unique url for that search. I needed this unique url to implement 'back' functionality so that if a user clicks on one of the posts in the list, after viewing the post if they decide to click back, they would get to see the results of the search still (by default they would be returned to the search form without any results anymore).
To allow for a back to search results I implemented a custom back button function and put it on the ionic back button element like this:
<ion-nav-back-button ng-click="goBack()">
and then setup a the custom function:
$scope.goBack = function() {
$window.history.back();
}
All of this works well, I can go back to search results and see them, essentially very much like normal browser back functionality.
Problem for me is that when I have gone all the way 'back' via the back button, my initial state contains the 'Back' button and clicking it does not go anywhere and the 'Back' button still shows. Ionic does pretty good about hiding the back button when it shouldn't be there but in this case not so. Any ideas for how to check when history is exhausted and hiding the back button conditionally would be appreciated.
EDIT:
Here is a jsFiddle ; Note: open fiddle in a new, separate tab to see back button issue. FYI Search is in the menu.
One of the few qualms I have with Ionic is their "smart" navigation. I have run into a lot of problems with this myself. My solution was to create a back button of my own, this back button stores previous states and their params so you can go back and not lose search results for example with your scenario.
This component gives you both a back button and breadcrumbs to use (or you can just use back button)
It is open source and feel free to use it!
jscBreadcrumbs
Strange Milk - Breadcrumbs Post
Here is your jsFiddle with the jscBreadcrumbs implemented and working:
jsFiddle
jscbreadcrumbs
You use $window.history.back(), I think you should use $ionicHistory.goBack(); instead. It can control the history and view and state in the ionic way.
Given something like this:
View = Backbone.Marionette.ItemView.extend({ });
myView = new View();
//region already exists
myLayout.region.show(myView)
//some time later this gets called again:
myLayout.region.show(myView)
I can see currentView in the docs but this only seems to apply at initialisation. Once a view is shown can I query the region to see the view? Either the view instance or type would be helpful. Looking in Chrome's debugger I can't see any properties/methods on the region that would help.
The motive for wanting to do this is so I don't show a static item view in a region again if it is already displayed as this can (especially if images are involved) cause a slight flickering effect on the screen.
Thanks
--Justin Wyllie
you can add a condition before calling show method:
if (myLayout.region.currentView != myView)
myLayout.region.show(myView)
so if you'll try to call show with the same View it wont be shown.
if you want to call region.show(myView) once you can check in this way:
if (_.isUndefined(myLayout.region.currentView))
myLayout.region.show(myView)
You can check the isClosed and $el attributes of the view. Something like
if (myView.isClosed || _.isUndefined(myView.$el)) {
myLayout.region.show(myView);
}
This is the same way the region checks to see if the view is closed or not:
show: function(view) {
this.ensureEl();
var isViewClosed = view.isClosed || _.isUndefined(view.$el);
...
I'm going out on a limb here and assuming that the OP's question is based on app behavior when navigating to different parts of the app via an anchor tag in the navigation or something similar.
This is how I found the question and I thought briefly that the answers would save my day. Although both answers so far are correct they do not quite solve the problem I was having. I wanted to display a persistent navigation bar. However, I did not want it to display on the login page. I was hopeful that detecting if a Region was already shown or not I'd be able to properly let the display logic take care of this.
As it turns out we were both on the right track to implement Regions as this provides granular control, but even after implementing the above I found that my nav bar would still "flicker" and essentially completely reload itself.
The answer is actually a bit ridiculous. Somehow in all the Backbone tutorials and research I've been doing the last two weeks I never came across the need to implement a javascript interface to interrupt normal link behavior. Whenever a navigation item was clicked the entire app was reloading. The routing was functioning so the content was correct, but the flicker was maddening.
I added the following to my app.js file right after the Backbone.history.start({pushState: true}); code:
// Holy crap this is SOOO important!
$(document).on("click", "a[href^='/']", function(event) {
if (!event.altKey && !event.ctrlKey && !event.metaKey && !event.shiftKey) {
event.preventDefault();
var url = $(event.currentTarget).attr("href").replace(/^\//, "");
Backbone.history.navigate(url, { trigger: true });
}
});
Check out this article for some explanation about the keyPress detection stuff. http://dev.tenfarms.com/posts/proper-link-handling
Boom! After adding this stuff in my app no longer completely reloads!
Disclaimer: I am very new to Backbone and the fact that the above was such a revelation for me makes me think that I may be doing something wrong elsewhere and this behavior should already exist in Backbone. If I've made a giant error here please comment and help me correct it.
I'm currently trying to figure out how to change the route parameters without reloading the entire page. For example, if I start at
http://www.example.com/#/page
but update a name to be 'George', to change the route to be:
http://www.example.com/#/page/george
If I already had http://www.example.com/#/page/:name routed.
Without reloading the location. Can one just set $routeParams.name = "George" ?
Edit:
Alternatively, is there a way to update http://www.example.com/#/page?name=George without reloading or resetting the page?
Ok, after a lot of searching. I answered my own question.
I've discovered finding anything on the angular documentation is incredibly impossible, but sometimes, once it's found, it changes how you were thinking about your problem.
I began here: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$location
Which took me here: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/dev_guide.services.$location
Which took me to this question: AngularJS Paging with $location.path but no ngView reload
What I ended up doing:
I added $location.search({name: 'George'}); To where I wanted to change the name (A $scope.$watch).
However, this will still reload the page, unless you do what is in that bottom StackOverflow link and add a parameter to the object you pass into $routeProvider.when. In my case, it looked like: $routeProvider.when('/page', {controller: 'MyCtrl', templateUrl:'path/to/template', reloadOnSearch:false}).
I hope this saves someone else a headache.
I actually found a solution that I find a little more elegant for my application.
The $locationChangeSuccess event is a bit of a brute force approach, but I found that checking the path allows us to avoid page reloads when the route path template is unchanged, but reloads the page when switching to a different route template:
var lastRoute = $route.current;
$scope.$on('$locationChangeSuccess', function (event) {
if (lastRoute.$$route.originalPath === $route.current.$$route.originalPath) {
$route.current = lastRoute;
}
});
Adding that code to a particular controller makes the reloading more intelligent.
You can change the display of the page using ng-show and ng-hide, these transitions won't reload the page. But I think the problem you're trying to solve is you want to be able to bookmark the page, be able to press refresh and get the page you want.
I'd suggest implementing angular ui-router Which is great for switching between states without reloading the page. The only downfall is you have to change all your routes.
Check it out here theres a great demo.
I have a site that has a user page. On that page, there are several links that let you explore the user's profile. I'd like to make it so that, when one of those links is clicked on, the url changes, but the top third of the page containing the user's banner doesn't reload.
I'm using Backbone.js
I have a feeling that I'm in one of those situation where I have such a poor understanding of the problem I'm dealing with that I'm asking the wrong question, so please let me know if that appears to be the case
My mistake was assuming that there was a special, built-in way of doing this in backbone. There isn't.
Simply running the following line of code
window.history.pushState('object or string', 'Title', '/new-url');
will cause your browser's URL to change without reloading the page. You can open up the javascript console in your browser right now and try it with this page. This article explains how it works in more detail (as noted in this SO post).
Now I've just bound the following event to the document object (I'm running a single page site):
bindEvents: () ->
$(document).on('click', 'a', #pushstateClick)
pushstateClick: (e) ->
href = e.target.href || $(e.target).parents('a')[0].href
if MyApp.isOutsideLink(href) == false
if e.metaKey
#don't do anything if the user is holding down ctrl or cmd;
#let the link open up in a new tab
else
e.preventDefault()
window.history.pushState('', '', href);
Backbone.history.checkUrl()
See this post for more info.
Note that you CAN pass the option pushstate: true to your call to Backbone.history.start(), but this merely makes it so that navigating directly to a certain page (e.g. example.com/exampleuser/followers) will trigger a backbone route rather than simply leading to nowhere.
Routers are your friend in this situation. Basically, create a router that has several different routes. Your routes will call different views. These views will just affect the portions of the page that you define. I'm not sure if this video will help, but it may give you some idea of how routers interact with the page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4iPnh-qago
Here's a rudimentary example:
myapp.Router = Backbone.Router.extend({
routes: {
'link1': 'dosomething1',
'link2': 'dosomething2',
'link3': 'dosomething3'
},
dosomething1: function() {
new myapp.MyView();
},
dosomething2: function() {
new myapp.MyView2();
},
dosomething3: function() {
new myapp.MyView3();
}
});
Then your url will look like this: www.mydomain.com/#link1.
Also, because <a href=''></a> tags will automatically call a page refresh, make sure you are calling .preventDefault(); on them if you don't want the page to refresh.
I have a lengthy form customers will need to fill out. If they click a link on a page, it will navigate away from that Controller and they will lose any data they may have already input.
If I can determine the form has not yet been saved, how can I intercept any click to the links on the page so I can ask the user if they want to save their form first?
No code yet- sorry. Many thanks.
I've written an angularjs directive that you can apply to any form that will automatically watch for changes and message the user if they reload the page or navigate away. #see https://github.com/facultymatt/angular-unsavedChanges
Hopefully you find this directive useful!
sorry for the late answer but mabye someone stumbles upon this and finds it useful. I have encountered the same problem and at the beginning i tryed to use the ng-dirty class applyed to the form element but because i had some custom controls the ng-bind won't be applyed when i changed some fields.
The best way i found so far is to detect when the model is changed with the use of $locationChangeStart event.
$scope.$on('$locationChangeStart', function (event, next, current) {
//we are about to leave the page so it's time to see if the form was modified by the user
if (!$scope.isFormClean())
{
event.preventDefault();
}
});