Navigation API

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Description

The Navigation API makes it easier for single page apps to handle navigation and updates to the URL. A modern and much improved alternative to the History API.

It cannot be polyfilled, so cross-browser support is crucial.

Specification

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/nav-history-apis.html#navigation-api

Additional Signals

Supported in Chrome and Edge since version 102.

Positive standards position from Safari and Firefox.

Firefox Bug
Safari Bug

299 likes for this tweet complaining that the Navigation API wasn't included in Interop 2024.

Tweet from a co-creator of React Router, the most popular frontend router.

[philwolstenholme]

For reference:

• 2024 submission: Navigation API #435
• 2023 submission: The navigation API #200

[gsnedders]

https://wpt.fyi/results/navigation-api?label=experimental&label=master&aligned

[wpt-interop]

Thank you for proposing Navigation API for inclusion in Interop 2025.

We are pleased to let you know that this proposal was accepted as part of the Navigation API focus area. You can follow the progress of this focus area on the Interop 2025 dashboard.

For an overview of our process, see proposal selection. Thank you for contributing to Interop 2025!

Posted on behalf of the Interop team.