reitit/doc/frontend/browser.md
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# Frontend browser integration
Reitit includes two browser history integrations.
Functions follow HTML5 History API: `push-state` to change route, `replace-state`
to change route without leaving previous entry in browser history.
## Fragment router
Fragment is simple integration which stores the current route in URL fragment,
i.e. after `#`. This means the route is never part of the request URI and
server will always know which file to return (`index.html`).
## HTML5 router
HTML5 History API can be used to modify the URL in browser without making
request to the server. This means the URL will look normal, but the downside is
that the server must respond to all routes with correct file (`index.html`).
Check examples for simple Ring handler example.
### Anchor click handling
HTML5 History router will handle click events on anchors where the href
matches the route tree (and other [rules](../../modules/reitit-frontend/src/reitit/frontend/history.cljs#L84-L98)).
If you have need to control this logic, for example to handle some
anchor clicks where the href matches route tree normally (i.e. browser load)
you can provide `:ignore-anchor-click` function to add your own logic to
event handling:
```clj
(rfe/start!
router
{:use-fragment false
:ignore-anchor-click (fn [e el]
(not= "false" (gobj/get (.-dataset el) "reititHandleClick")))})
;; Use data-reitit-handle-click to disable Reitit anchor handling
[:a
{:href (rfe/href ::about)
:data-reitit-handle-click false}
"About"]
```
## Easy
Reitit frontend routers require storing the state somewhere and passing it to
all the calls. Wrapper `reitit.frontend.easy` is provided which manages
a router instance and passes the instance to all calls. This should
allow easy use in most applications, as browser anyway can only have single
event handler for page change events.
## History manipulation
Reitit doesn't include functions to manipulate the history stack, i.e.
go back or forwards, but calling History API functions directly should work:
```
(.go js/window.history -1)
;; or
(.back js/window.history)
```