wtc-history 0.0.1

A simple wrapper for the HTML History API

src/wtc-history.js

new History()

Class representing an abstraction of the history API.

Install

$ npm install wtc-history

Usage

Import it in your project.

import History from 'wtc-history';

The history class is a static class, so we call its methods directly on the class itself rather than instanciate it. First, however, we need to intialise the class:

History.init();

Then we can push history states to it:

History.push('/home'); // The URL is now http://domain.com/home
History.push('/about'); // The URL is now http://domain.com/about
History.push('/about/team'); // The URL is now http://domain.com/about/team

We can also push histroy states that contain a title

History.push('/work', 'Our Work'); // The URL is now http://domain.com/work and the page title is 'Our Work'

Finally, we can also push state data into the history stack. This session data is available using the property History.currentState

History.push('/admin', 'Admin section', {sessionID: 1234567}); // The URL is now http://domain.com/work and the page title is 'Our Work'

If you want to listen to the pop and push states of the History wrapper, just subscribe to WTCHistory-pop and WTCHistory-push on the document. For example:

document.addEventListener('WTCHistory-push', (e) => {
 console.log(e.detail);
});
WTCHistory.push('/home', 'This is the Homepage', {testing: false});
// This will log:
// {
//   historyStateURL: '/home',
//   historyStateTitle: 'This is the Homepage',
//   testing: false
// }

The History object will work with native browser history interactions as well as with programmatic interactions, these can be easily triggered using History.back() and History.forward()

Returns

• Void

History.emitEvent(eventID, data)

Emits an event from the history object

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
eventID	string	the event ID to emit
data	object	= {} the data to include with the event

Examples

let listener = function(e) {
  console.log(e.detail)
  e.target.removeEventListener(e.type, arguments.callee);
}
document.addEventListener("ajax-get-addedToDom", listener);

Returns

• Void

History.init(devmode)

Initialises the History class. Nothing should be able to operate here unless this has run with a support = true.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
devmode	boolean	Indicated whether the object is running in dev mode (will log outputs to console)

Returns

• boolean Returns whether init ran or not

History.push(URL, title, stateObj)

Construct and push a URL state

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
URL	string	The URL to push, can be relative, absolute or full
title	string	The title to push.
stateObj	object	A state to push to the stack. This will be popped when naviagting back

Examples

AJAXObj.push('/dev/foo/bar', 'The title for the history object')

Returns

• boolean Indicates whether the push succeeded

History.back()

Takes the user back to the previous state. Simply wraps the history object's back method.

Returns

• Void

History.forward()

Takes the user forward to the next state. Simply wraps the history object's forward method.

Returns

• Void

History._fixURL(URL, includeDocRoot, includeTrails) private method

Takes a provided URL and returns the version that is usable

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
URL	string	The URL to be passed
includeDocRoot	boolean	= true Whether to include the docroot on the passed URL
includeTrails	boolean	= true Whether to include found hashes and params

Returns

• string The passed and formatted URL

URLRegex()

URL Regex works like this:

        ^
        ([^:]+://           # HTTP(S) etc.
            ([^/]+)         # The URL (if available)
        )?
        (#{@documentRoot})? # The document root, which we want to get rid of
        (/)?                # check for the presence of a leading slash
        ([^\#\?]*)          # The URI - this is what we care about. Check for everything except for # and ?
        (\?[^\#]*)?         # any additional URL parameters (optional)
        (\#\!?.+)?          # Any hashbang trailers (optional)

Returns

• Void

_popstate(e) private method

Listener for the popstate method

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
e	object	the passed event object

Returns

• void

docrootRegex()

docrootRegex works like this:

         ^
         ([^:]+://       # HTTP(S) etc.
             ([^/]+)     # The hostname (if available)
         )?
         /?
         (.*(?=/))?      # the URI to use as the docroot less any available trailing slash

Returns

• Void

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