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about hermes

Hermes is Backbone inspired client router for pushstate clients. Hermes was built to support hybrid web applications.

• Hermes is a simple object - I don't need no stinking constructors
• Hermes uses Backbone style route definitions
• Hermes always triggers a handler if a route is matched unless told otherwise - no more passing trigger for every single navigate
• Hermes accepts a state object
• Hermes sets the document title if one is passed when navigating and updates the title on popstate
• Hermes will optionally store references state objects in an internal cache (always stored in the history object)
• Hermes does not require Backbone, but will trigger Backbone events if a reference to Backbone is passed as an option on start

API

When a route handler is called it is passed three arguments:

• pathname
• parameters object (contains named path parameters and the values from window.location.search [given precedence over path parameters])
• state object

hermes.start(options)

Binds popstate handler and processes options.

hermes.start({
  routeOnHashChange: true, // execute matched route when hash changes; defaults to false
   routes: {}, // routes table
   title: '', // title for current page
   state: {}, // state object for the current page
   cache: false, // keep cache of state objects in addition to those stored in the history (stores page title regardless)
   routeNotMatched: function (routePathName) {
      // do something if a route is not matched, e.g., render 404 page
   }
}

});

hermes.stop()

Unbinds popstate handler.

hermes.route(route, name, callback)

Adds a route handler to Hermes.

hermes.destroyRoutes()

Deletes route handlers.

hermes.navigate(url, options)

Calls matching route handler if one is defined.

hermes.navigate(url, {
    title: '', // page title to associate to url
    state: {}, // state object to associate to url
    trigger: true // execute route handler; default is true
});

hermes.getItem(url)

Gets cached object for url.

hermes.updateState(state, title, [url])

Updates the state object for the current url or the url specified. Url = window.location.pathname + window.location.search.

hermes.clearCache()

Deletes cache object.

herems.getPreviousUrl()

Gets the previous Url. Useful for looking up the previous page's cache item.