Deep linking and back button

Feature Requests
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Hey!

Since there is no server side rendering, I can only run part of the app on anvil. I’d like to link to and embed certain screens, but there’s no way to load a screen via a url that I can find. Ie: http://foo.anvilapp.net/fooForm etc.

Also, the back button doesn’t work. This could be worked around by doing a pushstate on each form load if deep linking was present.

Thanks!

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You can, sort of, using get_url_hash() (see here : Anvil | Reference)

In brief, you can fetch everything after the # symbol in a url and route accordingly. So in your example, this URL :

http://foo.anvilapp.net/?#fooForm

you could do this in your main form :

required_page = get_url_hash()
if required_page == "fooForm":
    open_form("fooForm")

making your main page act just as a router.

(whilst you could obviously do open_form(required_form) I can’t recommend blindly doing anything sent in from ‘outside’)

Not out of the box, no. It might be possible to integrate a 3rd party library to do so, but you’d be going very off piste and into unstable territory in my opinion.

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oh sweet! ok, so you can route requests to forms, perfect :slight_smile:

I wouldn’t worry about manipulating the history object messing up an anvil app. It’s pretty easy to use.

Thank you!