Clicking “back” in the browser disables my javascr

Question

Well, as the title says more or less. I'm using the gem Turbolinks in my Rails application and I'm having a bit of a problem with the "browser back"-button. My javascripts works fine until i click back in my browser, then it stops working. If I click a link in my app or reload the page it starts working again.

Ant ideas how to fix this?

Answer 1

The jquery-turbolinks gem doesn't support Turbolinks 5 anymore, so that solution is deprecated right now.

If you'd like to disable turbolinks-caching, just add this meta to your page;

<meta name="turbolinks-cache-control" content="no-cache">

Answer 2

You can find answer in next turbolinks issue discussion. For me, next solution worked - deleting element initialized by JS (in my case chosen dropdown) using next:

document.addEventListener("turbolinks:before-cache", function() {
    $('.chosen-select').chosen('destroy');
})

Answer 3

Two solutions for Turbolinks Classic:

Set the cache to 0 so that no pages are cached using HTML5 History.

Turbolinks.pagesCached(0);

Another solution is to listen to "page:restore" event and call your initialization method. This latter solution is more performant.

document.addEventListener("page:restore", function() {
  app.init();
});