URL Is Your State
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The article discusses using URLs to represent application state in web development, sparking a thoughtful discussion on its implications and best practices.
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CarlitosHighway
2 months ago
I love, mean hate, the comments to the blog - seems we soon have come full circle.
nacozarina
2 months ago
a url is at-best an opaque hash and if you spend more than one femtosecond/year on curating the discrete text of your urls you are completely unhinged.
al_borland
2 months ago
I find URLs I can do this to very useful. At the same time, I get annoyed by excessively long URLs when sharing. I wish some sites that had chronically long URLs had a built-in URL shortener as an option to more easily share links or add them to markdown files, without it looking like a giant mess.
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