history.pushState does not trigger 'popstate' event

Question

Why

$(function () {
  $(window).bind(\'popstate\', function () {alert(\'pop\');});

  window.history.pushState(null, \'\', \'/foo\');
});

Answer 1

Don't know exactly what you where trying to achieve but if you simply want your popState Event Handler to launch you can simply extract it out to a function like below :

function popStateHandler(event) {
     // Event handling Code here
}
window.onpopstate = popStateHandler;

Then you can simply call your popStateHandler after you pushState.