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by hardwaresofton 3806 days ago
Works well for me! Great work.

It would be nice if the URL updated to reflect which videos were being streamed, and which layout you were in, that would make configs more copy-paste-able. One of hte great features of multitwitch.tv is that it's easy to craft/copy-paste a URL that leads directly to both games.
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jiggity 3806 days ago
Ahh you mean like pushstate into the addressbar. That's a great idea. One of the issues has been losing the streams you were watching upon refresh
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hardwaresofton 3806 days ago
Yep! It's one of the things Ember is (or should be) best known for. The whole "don't break the web" tirade.

React-router should be able to handle it (you said you were using react, wasn't sure if it was in conjunction with react-router), but the documentation that describes the updating patterns of the URL isn't so easy to find... This might help though:

https://github.com/rackt/react-router/issues/266 (Issue from someone trying to change URL without triggering re-route, might help with saving params to URL).

I was thinking that rather than how multitwitch does it (which is multitwitch.tv/<stream1>/<stream2> or something like that), you might want to pass the streams as query string params (ex. "&1=<stream1>").... But then again, you could just use their style. Also it might be smart to selected layout type.

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