Change URL without navigating to it

[ryespresso]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

In a project I am working on, we sometimes bring up a modal window, that we'd like to be linked to by a URL. So that if a user refreshes the screen, the modal appears.

When this modal appears, I'd like to change the URL, without navigating the user to that screen. When we close the URL, the URL will change back to where they were at.

Describe the solution you'd like

Functionality in $goto or elsewhere that allows you to change the URL without navigating away from the current page.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• I was hoping $goto had this functionality, but I wasn't able to find a solution.
• window.history.pushState or window.history.replaceState but it does not work

[jakobrosenberg]

Hi @ryeshrimp. Are you using Routify 2 or 3?

I take it that you're trying to do this, but without the modal address getting pushed to the navigation history.

[ryespresso]

Using v2 @jakobrosenberg

Exactly like that, however, not getting pushed the navigation history and not actually navigating to that page.

In your example the Modal only shows in the [key].svelte file. My modal code would be in [key].svelte and the index.svelte file.