One of my colleagues is working on a Single Page Application, he asked me for help on a solid design for routing and specifically about sub-routing. Sub-routing in a SPA is complex, as an example when you click a link in a list you want that item to be presented in a modal window. If you close the modal window and press back in the history you want it to show again, and if you press forward you want it to close. I choose to attack this problem with an Event Aggregation approach, where changes to the route resulted in a change event being fired to any listener. (more…)