Every character press adds a new Browser history entry

[lilyball]

This completely destroys my browser history. After playing around with this for a bit yesterday, I had to delete literally thousands of browser history entries.

Instead of setting location.href it should use history.replaceState. That way I keep a single history entry that gets updated with the state. Selecting an example could push a new history entry, but all other edit actions shouldn't.

[orta]

The TypeScript playground uses replace state, but unfortunately that doesn't actually mean you don't get a destroyed history.

Maybe at some point browser vendors decided to just not respect that? I've tried a few times to figure out what was going on but never found an answer

[lilyball]

If browsers aren't respecting that then I think you need to stop rewriting the URL on every keypress and instead provide a button that updates the URL. As it is, I cannot use the typescript playground because of how thoroughly it destroys my history; at best I can type up my code into another editor, then copy and paste it into the playground.