When browsing a website is there any way to detect whether it's client-side routing or server-side routing in use, except for checking the network tab (in dev tools) for downloaded HTML documents?
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Yeah, the network tab? – Jonas Wilms Sep 01 '19 at 19:00
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What is "server-side" and what is "client-side"? You mean full reload vs adding part of HTML into DOM? – Akxe Sep 01 '19 at 19:01
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@Akxe Yes, exactly. https://stackoverflow.com/a/10473302/1417223 – Fellow Stranger Sep 01 '19 at 19:16
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You could use the beforeunload event to decide what type of routing that is.
window.addEventListener('beforeunload', function (e) {
console.log(e);
// This is usually used to block user navigation, for example, when they have not saved cahnges
/**
* // Cancel the event
* e.preventDefault();
* // Chrome requires returnValue to be set
* e.returnValue = '';
*/
});
To detect changes to DOM, you could use MutationObserver. But I would either useone or the other.
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