Recently, I came across the following Stack Overflow question regarding state handling on refresh in a single page application (SPA). I found the approach OP was taking towards developing a SPA interesting: they wanted to avoid third party libraries and frameworks because they “prefer the simpler ways first”.

Here’s the question that sparkled this article:

I’ve made a simple proof of concept to illustrate how one could achieve what they were looking for, which can be seen here (or cloned from github).

In the uploaded version, I’m using the last URL parameter to determine what should be loaded. This is…