Yep, I was doing it wrong. You're supposed to pass a state object as the first parameter, I was passing null. So this fixes 2 things, prevents me from having

Yep, I was doing it wrong. You're supposed to pass a state object as the first parameter, I was passing null. So this fixes 2 things, prevents me from having to do XHR on initial page load AND I don't need to do an XHR on back/forward navigation either, I can just use the state object to store my data. Awesome!