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apatheticonion • today at 6:24 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

There are valid use cases however the issue is rooted in lacking browser APIs.

For instance,

- if you want to do statistics tracking (how many hits your site gets and user journeys)

- You have a widget/iframe system that needs to teardown when the SPA page is navigated away

- etc

The browser does not have a;

   globalThis.history.addEventListener('navigate')
So you must monkey patch the history API. It's impractical from a distribution standpoint to embed this code in the page bundle as it's often managed externally and has its own release schedule.

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jampekka • today at 6:41 AM

Browsers now have window.navigation.addEventListener("navigate") that allows just this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigation/...

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friendzis • today at 6:29 AM

> - if you want to do statistics tracking (how many hits your site gets and user journeys)

You can do all of that server-side and much more reliably at that. The only reason to do any of this tracking client-side is advertisers trusting fake number go up more than sales numbers.