Backbone.js and pushState

Question

If I enable pushState in the backbone router, do I need to use return false on all links or does backbone handle this automatically? Is there any samples out there, both the

Answer 1

match() or startsWith() (ES 6) also can be used for checking protocol. If you want to support absolute urls by pathname property, check the base urls by location.origin.

function(evt) {
  var target = evt.currentTarget;
  var href = target.getAttribute('href');

  if (!href.match(/^https?:\/\//)) {
    Backbone.history.navigate(href, true);
    evt.preventDefault();
  }
  // or

  var protocol = target.protocol;

  if (!href.startsWith(protocol)) {
    // ...
  }
  // or

  // http://stackoverflow.com/a/25495161/531320
  if (!window.location.origin) {
    window.location.origin = window.location.protocol 
     + "//" + window.location.hostname
     + (window.location.port ? ':' + window.location.port: '');
  }

  var absolute_url = target.href;
  var base_url = location.origin;
  var pathname = target.pathname;

  if (absolute_url.startsWith(base_url)) {
    Backbone.history.navigate(pathname, true);
    evt.preventDefault();
  }
}