navigate-trait enhances the "nav" and "a" (anchor) tag, in order to support client-side routing.
navigate-trait is an abstract class (if using Typescript), allowing for different approaches / libraries for parsing the url, and/or stringifying an object to the url [TODO].
It is inspired by the article How To Extend a Native HTML Element.
In order to "opt-in", the anchor tags should have the (customizable) attribute "be-a-nav-link":
<nav>
<a be-a-nav-link href="myAccounts/14394402/statements/201904?page=1">
Statement for April 2019
</a>
<br>
<a be-a-nav-link href="myAccounts/398821401/transactions?from=2020-10-01&to=2020-11-19">
Transactions for 10/1/2020 - 11/19/2020
</a>
</nav>or
<nav>
<a data-be-a-nav-link href="myAccounts/14394402/statements/201904?page=1">
Statement for April 2019
</a>
<br>
<a data-be-a-nav-link href="myAccounts/398821401/transactions?from=2020-10-01&to=2020-11-19">
Transactions for 10/1/2020 - 11/19/2020
</a>
</nav>To customize the attribute ("be-a-nav-link") web components that extend this abstract class can use attribute "a-trait-attr".