Your URL is your state

Ahmad Alfy explores how URLs can act as powerful, shareable state containers for web applications, capturing configuration, intent, and user experience without databases or cookies. He argues that well-designed URLs improve usability, resilience, and clarity by making state persistent, bookmarkable, and meaningful. URLs are the web’s oldest form of state management and still among the most elegant.

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