Backbone.js (with Introduction to Testing)

Backbone.js (with Introduction to Testing) Routing Background

Sam Breed
Sam Breed
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Routing is the ability to look at a URL within a web application and recreate a state. Most client-side techniques use a hash(#) to determine a specific state. These routes are called hash fragments. Hash fragments have evolved into the HTML5 history API. This HTML5 history API enabled more advanced routing because full URLs can be used, as opposed to hash fragments.

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