[zachrip]

Full refresh defeats the purpose of a spa unfortunately. I just tested that event and it actually doesn't appear to fire when navigating backwards, only when the page is initially shown...which contradicts the comments in that code.

[matsemann]

Maybe you misunderstand the original issue. This is when navigating back to a "new" page, not internally in a SPA. But this issue mainly happens when navigating back to a page with dynamic behavior (typically a SPA or other interactive application).