Question

I am using the backbone boilerplate here
https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate

I do development in static html/js offline and do test offline before uploading to another pre-production site online. What annoyed me is that the router works in pre-production but not offline. This is the root for pre:

  var app = {
    // The root path to run the application.
    root: "/myfolder/"
  };

This is the URL for online pre-production:

http://www.mywebsite.com/myfolder/index.html

This is URL for offline:

file:///C:/Users/MyHome/Desktop/MyProject/MyApp/index.html

What do I use for root in offline? Is there a way NOT to keep changing root every time I upload to pre-production? Or does router not working in static html at all?

p.s. This is the code in main.js

Backbone.history.start({ pushState: true, root: app.root });

Answer 1

Never mind. After doing some reading, pushState does not work with file protocol

https://github.com/mtrpcic/pathjs

http://html5doctor.com/history-api/

The HTML5 Mozilla document doesn’t say this though.