Should be able to replace current route without history entry

[Infeligo]

History API provides two methods for updating state: pushState and replaceState. The latter is used when there is no intention to create a new history entry. There are realistic use cases for this. Other frameworks that have routing provide such method (e.g. Backbone and Mithril). Is it possible to add such option to Riot?

[cognitom]

I'm implementing this feature on dev branch:

shouldReplace
  ? hist.replaceState(null, title, path)
  : hist.pushState(null, title, path)

Usage:

var replaceFlag = true
route('path/to', 'Page Title', replaceFlag)

But, I couldn't make a test for it, because PhantomJS (1.9) doesn't support history.back()...
Is there any good idea?

[cognitom]

@GianlucaGuarini any idea about testing this? I've been trying to move to PhantomJS 2.0, but there're other difficulties...
Protractor could be another option?

[GianlucaGuarini]

@cognitom you can run the tests using our browserstack account

[cognitom]

Oh, thanks. I've almost forgot about that. I'll have a try ;)

[cognitom]

@Infeligo we can use this feature from riot-route@2.3.15 or riot@2.3.13 :-)