Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

7.3.0 - 2025-10-30

Added

• Added PineconeRouter.match method that allows checking routes externally using Javascript. (#82)

Fixed

• Fixed embeded scripts not running when adding routes using PineconeRouter.add (Fix #81)

7.2.0 - 2025-06-09

Added

• Added Settings.pushState boolean property to allow disabling of browser history updates. ie. no changes to the URL when navigating. Built-in NavigationHistory can be used in this case.

7.1.3 - 2025-06-05

Fixed

• Fixed basePath not added to history path (#76)

7.1.2 - 2025-06-03

Fixed

• Fixed context.path includes query params after navigate() is called #73

7.1.0 - 2025-05-10

Added

• Added Settings.fetchOptions property as an object to be passed to every template fetch request including preloads. (Addresses #72)

[7.0.3] - 2025-04-24

Fixed

• Fixed interpolating templates not clearing when navigating to a different route
• Fixed hash routing not working with github pages

Added

• Settings.basePath now works with hash routing, by adding the basePath to template urls automatically.

7.0.2 - 2025-04-11

Fixed

• Fixed loading not ending when there are no templates or handlers.

7.0.1 - 2025-04-11

Fixed

• Fixed path not added to NavigationHistory on first page load.

7.0.0 - 2025-04-11

This is release contains a major overhaul to the codebase, code structure and quality improvements, and better Tyepscript support. Therefore, 7.0 contains some changes to the way you use Pinecone Router which are documented in detail below.

Also, with this release, I’ve sunset the Middlewares feature which proved to be not as useful as I thought it would be long back in 2021!. Their purpose has been very well accomplished with handlers for a while now, but only now did I really give it the thought to make such a decision.

I continue to support Pinecone Router within my capacities, and this refactor will let me have easier time finding the issues as they come up, and implement more features if needed. And hopefully even make it less intimidating for contributors to do so as well!

For a more concise upgrade guide, look here

Added

• Added $params magic helper.
• Added $history magic helper to access history related methods and properties.
• Added support for multiple-child templates.
  • You can include as many root elements inside the template file as you want.
• Added support for multiple scripts inside the template.
• Added support for params in template urls (interpolation) for routes added programmatically
• Added ability to name routes with the x-route:name="...." syntax. See: Named Routes
• Added Settings.preload to enable preloading all templates.
• Added proper priority option to preloading requests, they are now of ‘low’ priority rather than the previous default of ‘high’.
• Preloading now waits for the first page to be fully rendered before starting.
• Added reactive PineconeRouter.loading boolean property set to true when loading.
• Added an AbortController passed to handlers, for better experience.
• You can now pass data to the next handler by simply returning it.
• Added a HandlerContext.data field inside the context object passed to handlers, which includes the returned data by the previous handler, if any.
• Added support for extension param modifier:

• Settings.basePath is now automatically added to the route path.

  • This means if you set the basePath to /parent, you can now just write x-route="/" and x-route="/about" rather than x-route="/parent" and x-route="/parent/about".
• Settings.basePath is now automatically added to the template URLS.
• Added proper Typescript types for all parts of the router.
• Added unit tests for some parts of the router using Bun.

Changed

• Instead of providing the context object, $router now does what it says and provides PineconeRouter object .

• inline templates now must use an empty x-template directive.

  • This also support x-template.target.
  • This change was made to separate template code from x-route, although it was handy, this change results in cleaner and more concise code.
• Context.route is now a Route object instead of a Route.path string.
• Changed PineconeRouter.settings from a Settings object to a function that returns the Settings object and takes Partial<Settings> object in order to configure. See more

• During navigation—ie while handlers are being executed—the global context object wont be updated until the handlers are finished.

  • This means handlers must now use the provided context object, if they didn’t before for whatever reason.

• The navigation methods navigate|back|forward etc. are no longer part of the context object.

  • Instead use $router.navigate, this.$router.navigate, window.PineconeRouter.navigate, or Alpine.$router.navigate etc.
• Renamed Settings.templateTargetId to Settings.targetID
• Renamed RouteOptions.templateTargetId to RouteOptions.targetID.
• Renamed Settings.interceptLinks to Settings.handleClicks to clearly represent what it does.
• Templates will not be automatically hidden until the handlers are done, meaning the previous template will stay visible while next route’s handlers are running.
  • This means you will not get an empty page while loading a page with async handlers.
• Context.navigationStack and Context.navigationIndex are now PineconeRouter.history.entries and PineconeRouter.history.index respectively. See docs.
• Navigation stack and index will only be updated after the handlers have finished executing successfuly.
• In case of handlers canceling or redirecting, the stack wont be updated.
  • This prevents being stuck when going back() to a path that redirects to the current one.
• Renamed the events pinecone-start, pinecone-end, and fetch-error into pinecone:start, pinecone:end, and pinecone:fetch-error respectively.
• loading start and end events (above), are now always dispatched regardless if there are handlers/templates or not (alwaysSendLoadingEvents by default).

• No longer passes the hash portion when navigating using normal mode

  • ie. if you’re on /home and click an anchor link to ‘#tab1’, then clicking a link to ‘/profile’ after wont take you to ‘/profile#tab1’ anymore.
• Switched from pnpm/esbuild/node to bun for package management, bundling, and testing.

Removed

• Removed redirect method, as it’s no longer needed now that all navigation requests now cancel handlers in progress, for example navigate().
• Removed Context.query and Context.hash, as they aren’t useful since you can get them using window.location.search and window.location.hash respectively.
• Removed inline templates support from x-route in favor of inline x-template.
• Removed Settings.alwaysSendLoadingEvents, it is now default and unchangable.
• Removed internal properties from the PineconeRouter object which weren’t supposed to be accessed or modified by the end user. These properties weren’t documented besides from code and now they no longer polute the public API.

Fixed

• All navigation requests now cancel ongoing handlers, including back() and forward().
• Trailing slashes are now properly always ignored by default.
• Routes that share the same x-template value—ie. the same template urls—used to be ignored after the first one, this can now be solved by adding a unique id to the template elements.
• Fixed a bug where x-effect/$watch callback inside a template still run after the route changes due to the global context updating prematurely (fix #62).
• Fixed browser back and forth navigation not always always work (#16)
• Fixed query being used as part of the path on initial load.
• Fixed Context.path being empty on init (fixes #67).

6.2.5 - 2025-04-11

Fixed

• Fixed query being read as part of the path on first page load.
• Fixed empty path on init (fix #67)

6.2.4 - 2025-03-20

Fixed

• Fixed interpolating templates not clearing when changing route

6.2.3 - 2025-03-20

Fixed

• Changed template url interpolataion regex to [^/.]+

6.2.2 - 2025-03-20

Fixed

• Changed template url interpolataion regex to [^/]+ to match anything but a slash instead of /:([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/g

6.2.1 - 2025-03-15

Fixed

• Fixed error in x-template.interpolate modifier

6.2.0 - 2025-03-15

Added

• Added x-template.interpolate modifier for fetching templates based on route params

6.1.0 - 2025-03-15

Added

• Added support for <script> tags inside templates (see docs).

6.0.0 - 2025-02-21

Added

• Added PineconeRouter.settings.alwaysSendLoadingEvents to always dispatch loading events even when no external templates or handlers are present

Changed

• No longer passes query when navigating by default

Removed

• Removed the option to pass search query when navigating, it served no real purpose.
  • Removed includeQuery parameters from all methods that had it
  • Removed PineconeRouter.settings.includeQuery setting

Fixed

• Fixed loading events dispatching (Fix #54).

5.5.0 - 2025-02-11

Added

• Added x-handler.global modifier for handlers that will be run on every route.

5.4.0 - 2025-02-10

Fixed

• Fixed run order of directives, x-route > x-handler > x-template. no longer dependent on attribute order.
  • This fixes errors due to automatic attribute ordering when doing an astro build.

5.3.0 - 2025-02-04

Changed

• Changed declarative templates so they replace the target’s content rather than appending to it. (fix #49)

5.2.2 - 2025-02-03

Added

• Added preload option to PineconeRouter.add()
  • Suggested by @boustanihani #48

5.2.1 - 2025-01-30

Fixed

• Update types.

5.2.0 - 2025-01-30

Added

• Added includeQuery option for navigate(), redirect(), back(), and forward() and the setting PineconeRouter.settings.includeQuery to clear search query when navigating and clicking links.
  • See README section for documentation.
  • Thanks @yllumi #47 for the suggestion

5.1.0 - 2025-01-22

Added

• Added Navigation Stack allowing for $router.back() method and more, see README for more info. (Thanks @Blindmikey #46 for the suggestion)

5.0.0 - 2024-12-25

Added

• Added support for multiple templates inside x-template (Thanks @RobinManoli #44 for the suggestion)

Changed

• Breaking: Changed Route.options.template to Route.options.templates

4.4.1 - 2024-08-05

Fixed

• Prevent empty string from being passed to getElementById() when the route does not have own templateId by @Aramics #40

4.4.0 - 2024-07-10

Added

• Added PineconeRouter.settings.interceptLinks option, true by default but can be set to false to disable automatic handling of links by the router.
• Added x-link attribute to handle links when interceptLinks setting is set to false.

4.3.2 - 2024-04-16

Fixed

• Fixed template rendering twice when adding routes programmatically (fix #38)

Added

• Added templateTargetId option for PineconeRouter.add() method.

4.3.1 - 2024-04-03

Added

• Update Typescript definitons. (fix #36)

Changed

• Merged the pnpm scripts build & build:types into build
• Updated to latest dev dependencies

Removed

• Removed Vite as a dev dependency

4.3.0 - 2024-02-21

Added

• Add support for adding templates programmatically using PineconeRouter.add('/route', {template: '/route.html'})

4.2.0 - 2024-01-07

Added

• Support custom target element ID for inline templates: x-route.target.app.
  • This means now inline templates also use global template target id from settings.
• Added an error when trying to use x-template on a template element that have a child, meaning trying to mix inline and external templates.
  • It is impossible to have both as they both put the content inside the template, x-template does after fetching it from a link. (no one tried this afaik but just in case).

Changed

• No longer use the same variable names as x-if for showing and hiding inline or external templates:
  • el._x_undoIf -> el._x_PineconeRouter_undoTemplate
  • el._x_currentIfEl -> el._x_PineconeRouter_CurrentTemplate
• Now x-route adds an el._x_PineconeRouter_route with the full route as its value (including base path in settings)

  These changes are just for internal use.

4.1.1 - 2024-01-06

Fixed

• Fixed template not rendering inside the target element after revisiting the page
• Fixed loading event not being sent after preloading page finishes loading.

4.1.0 - 2024-01-06

Fixed

• Fixed template not rendering when preloading another one.
• x-template.target no longer need the target to be cleared manually if the other routes do not use it.

Changed

• Changed template rendering method, borrowed from shaunlee/alpinejs-router.
• Changed link handling method, use preact-router’s method instead of page.js
• There should be no difference for you as it’s an internal change.

4.0.3 - 2024-01-03

Fixed

• Fixed handlers not having access to this context when the handler is in an Alpine component.

4.0.2 - 2023-12-23

Fixed

• Prevent reloading on double clicking links. (Fixes #24)

4.0.1 - 2023-12-23

Fixed

• Fixed fetch-error event not triggered for 404, 500 responses (Fixes #26)

4.0.0 - 2023-11-27

Added

• Added x-template directive replacing the views middleware.
• Added events: pinecone-start & pinecone-end that dispatch to document on template loading, and fetch-error on failure.
• Added cleanup() for when the route element is removed from the page, it now removes the route as well.
• Added cleanup() for x-handler and x-template, now the handlers and tempate are deleted when the attributes are removed.
• Added PineconeRouter.settings.templateTargetId when set all external templates will use render to this element

Changed

• PineconeRouter.currentContext is now PineconeRouter.context
• Handlers are now awaited if they’re async, so operations such as fetching will prevent rendering templates and execution of subsequent handlers until current handler is done.
• If a link is a clicked to navigate to a new page while there are handlers active, they will be automatically canceled, the current one will finish running but any ones after will not.

3.1.2 - 2023-11-26

Removed

• Remove unused method from utils

3.1.1 - 2023-05-29

Added

• Add “types” field to package.json

3.1.0 - 2023-04-26

Fixed

• hash routing: fix automatically adding path to hash (discussion#18)

3.0.1 - 2023-04-06

Fixed

• Removed console.log :/

3.0.0 - 2023-04-06

Removed

• Removed viewCache property, since I removed caching functionality in Views Middleware v3.0.0

2.1.3 - 2022-12-04

Fixed

• Do not call onHandlersExecuted middlewares if a handler redirected

2.1.2 - 2022-12-04

Fixed

• routes can now be declared without handlers

2.0.0 - 2022-12-04

Updated to Alpine.js v3

It’s mostly backward compatible but need a few tweaks:

Removed

• no longer need x-router attribute in the alpine-component!

Changed

• Changed the way you adjust settings has changed
• Middleware api

1.0.4 - 2021-06-03

Fix

• Fix Handler type

1.0.3 - 2021-05-31

Fix

• Fix Settings.middlewares type
• Change PineconeRouter.name from Pinecone Router to pinecone-router. (Non-breaking).

1.0.2 - 2021-05-31

Fix

• Moved types back to index.ts.

1.0.1 - 2021-05-31

Added

• Middleware type (Typescript).

1.0.0 - 2021-05-31

Added

• Added type definition for the Settings object

0.3.1 - 2021-05-17

Added

• Added type definition for the Context object.

Changed

• Internal change: Switched to PNPM for package mangement.

0.3.0 - 2021-05-08

Added

• Support for inline handlers!
• Ability to override settings through a parameter in router component data!

Changed

• Switched to Typescript.
• Better route matching taken from preact-router.
• Multiple handlers syntax, no longer comma separated but array instead.

Removed

• Remove all events since loading ones cant be accurate and init one is useless until someone ask for it.
• Remove option to turn off intercepting links since it don’t work. may be back with javascript config.
• Attribute settings like x-hash, x-base, x-slash.

0.1.1 - 2021-05-02

Changed

• Internal change: use es6 rest parameter for middleware calling.
• Better link click handling taken from Page.js

Fixed

• Fix return on notfound; you weren’t able to use $router on a notfound route.
• Fix dynamically added links not handled

Removed

• Removed onLinkIntercepted middleware function.

0.1.0 - 2021-05-01

Added

• Support for multiple comma-separated handler in x-handler.
• Middleware support!

Changed

• Changed the name from Alpine Router to Pinecone Router!
• Moved the repository to a new Github organization, pinecone-router.
• Moved x-render & x-views into separate middlewares.
• Renamed context.go() to context.redirect().

Removed

• Removed context.setHash & context.setQuery

0.0.9 - 2021-04-26

Fixed

• Views were possibly rendered two times.

Changed

• Better loadend event dispatching by waiting for views & page loads.

0.0.8 - 2021-04-25

Changed

• No changes from 0.0.7, only to fix an NPM publish mistake.

0.0.7 - 2021-04-25

Added

• Added context.go(path) for redirecting within a handler.

Removed

• Removed magic helper module in favor of bundling with the main module

0.0.6 - 2021-04-24

Added

• Added $router magic helper.

0.0.5 - 2021-04-24

Changed

• Added NPM package.

0.0.4 - 2021-04-23

Changed

• Handle routes before rendering pages or views, to allow them being used for validation etc.

0.0.3 - 2021-04-23

Removed

• Let go of multi-router support for simpler codebase.