Persist query in URL parameters

[ErikBoesen]

One kind of nice (although very bugged) thing that the Yale Face Book does is that when you run a search, the search information is stored in the URL. That way, if you want to send someone the results of your search, you can just copy and paste the URL, which would be something like:

yalies.io/?query=Some+name&filters=...

[jeffreyjgong]

@ErikBoesen Any hints on how to go about getting started on this?

[ErikBoesen]

@jeffreyjgong Check this out; see if you can first figure out how to add the URL parameters based on the query and filters without making the page reload. The variable called criteria holds the parameters that we use for each search; figure out how to convert that into URL parameters.

The next step would be to add some code that will run on load to check what's in the query parameters and use that to reassemble the criteria variable.

[ericyoondotcom]

we NEEEEED this feature