Question

I’m using backbone for a current project. I was wondering if it’s possible to do routing without hashes #, like davis.js does.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to enable pushState

Backbone.history.start({pushState: true})

http://backbonejs.org/#Router

http://backbonejs.org/#History

Edit: As noted in the comments this will only work for browsers that support pushState, browsers that don’t will fall back to the hash method. There is no real way around this, you can enable for modern browser and fall back or just use hashes for all browsers.