Can't Get Backbone Routes Without Hashes?

I want to have bookmarkable URLs that the browser can capture and handle. If I just use Backbone.history.start(), then I can use hash URLs, like /#accounts. But I want URLs withou

Solution 1:

You would navigate to that url with js using router.navigate( "/accounts", true ), not by links or entering the url yourself. To use links, you must bind a click event to them and prevent the default action and call navigate to the links href.

router is an instance of Router