Svelte and Sapper in Action

9 Client-side routing

This chapter covers

• “Manual” routing
• Hash routing
• Using the page.js library for routing
• Other routing options

Client-side routing is the ability to navigate between the pages of a web application. There are many things that can trigger a route change:

• The user clicks a link or button.

• The application programmatically changes the route based on the current state of the app.

• The user manually modifies the URL in the browser’s address bar.

Sapper, which builds on Svelte, provides a routing solution that is generally easier to use than adding routing to a Svelte app. This approach will be covered in chapters 15 and 16.

If you do not wish to use the other features that Sapper provides, or you wish to use a different ...