provide links to content

[techieshark]

Currently when you search for a school (either by name or your address), you'll get to the content but the site's URL doesn't change, meaning you can't link directly to that thing (like a permalink).

Either users don't care about this, or we haven't done enough testing in real world situations to have this issue come up (note that I'm reporting this, not any user or based on conversations with users).

If we wanted to address this, we could use the History API to make the site's URL change and reflect the content being viewed.

Implementation questions include:

• If a user types their address, do we include their address in the URL of the result?
• If a user searches for a school by name but then selects another school using the map, should the URL reflect what they originally searched for or the current state of the view?

Related:

Issue #118
http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2014/02/single-page-app-links.html
https://medium.com/@stilkov/why-i-hate-your-single-page-app-f08bb4ff9134#.fh7gkqs1v
https://www.shiftedup.com/2014/10/15/is-a-single-page-application-what-you-really-need

[techieshark]

@Rustuma @reekypete @kate-miller have you come across any need to link to specific schools yet? Is that why the ?school_code=xxxx was added?

[Rustuma]

I don't know. @reekypete ??