Shortening the url

[BasLee]

At the moment textannoviz contains url search params to persist the most important parts of its state. This allows for easy bookmarking and sharing of search and detail pages.

Example query (2432 chars).

The length of these urls makes sharing quite painful.

How to shorten urls?

• params not interesting to bookmark/share can be moved to store/local storage
• params that match the default query can be removed from the url, and from the base64 encoded query param
• textannoviz can store the params remotely (and publicly): sharing can be done using an ID or hash (redis example)
• textannoviz can add a button that copies a sharable link stripped of all state, keeping only the bare minimum:
  • detail page: tier2, highlight
  • search page: query, page, sorting, paging

[kintopp]

See also #85