Im a strong proponent for storing everything in the url that makes sense. Before hot module replacement and fancy hacks to improve developer experience, develop

Im a strong proponent for storing everything in the url that makes sense. Before hot module replacement and fancy hacks to improve developer experience, developers were naturally motivated to do this as (auto-)refreshing the page while working would reveal all the state that would be lost. Now this is often just ignored even at bigger sites like quora and creates very annoying user experience when sharing links or apps/ tabs get nuked or when tabs reload after session restore. As a side note it is really surprising how many native apps also lose important UI state after being in the background.