Is there currently a way to pass the URL that was called to my Compose App? If someone calls `<http...

# compose-web

[Stefan Oltmann]

Is there currently a way to pass the URL that was called to my Compose App?

If someone calls <https://stefan-oltmann.de/oni-seed-browser/#myseed> I want to get the #myseed part to show specific information.

[Robert Jaros]

If you have access to browser API (in js or wasmJs sourcesets) you can just use document.location?.hash

[Stefan Oltmann]

Thank you. 🙂

It works for the first time the Compose for Web app loads.
If I change it in the URL and press Enter it won't have an effect until I reload.

Is there something I can do that changing the URL int he browser and pressing enter will update my Composable with the new value?

[Robert Jaros]

You should use some routing library with support for hash based routing.

[Robert Jaros]

like https://github.com/hfhbd/routing-compose

[Robert Jaros]

Or just use window.onhashchange = { }

[Stefan Oltmann]

Thanks, will look into that 🙂

[Stefan Oltmann]

Great, that's what I needed. 🙏

[Andrei Mandychev]

Thank you for the useful question and the answer.
What about the case if I would like to handle urls with routing-compose:
/page1 - as ordinary url path
/page2 - redirection to page2#seed1
/page2#seed1 - as hashed url path
/page2#seed2 - as hashed url path
This snippet seems to work fine, but probably there are some possible optimisations?

BrowserRouter(initPath = "/") {
    route("page1") {
        Text("page1")
    }
    route("page2") {
        HashRouter(initPath = "/") {
            redirect(route = arrayOf("/"), target = "seed1")
            route("seed1") {
                Text("page2#seed1")
            }
            route("seed2") {
                Text("page2#seed2")
            }
            noMatch {
                Text("no match for page2")
            }
        }
    }
    noMatch {
        Text("no match for page1")
    }
}