urlSync + Turbolinks back button not working

I am using the using instantsearch with turbolinks and am experiencing an issue where the back button is not working correctly.

My search coffeescript

search = instantsearch(
      appId: 'id'
      apiKey: 'key'
      indexName: 'index'
      urlSync: {
        threshold: 300
      })

When I search products, the url is updated as expected, search works. If I click on a product, than click the back button, the url changes to the previously generated search url, but I stay on the product#show page for the instance I was viewing. Clicking back button a second time takes me to the root /products page.

This issue doesn’t occur when setting useHash: true, unfortunately analytics team needs this to be query params.

[bobylito]

Closing this issue in favor of https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch.js/issues/2998

[bobylito]

Also, it would be great to have at least a few lines of documentation about this turbolinks options. It seems to be black magic 😄

Yes totally, especially since it was an option of the urlSync. From what I can read about turbolinks, the project is very much black magic 😅

But turbolinks=true appears in the URL query string when I do that. Can I hide it?

I’m not quite sure how turbolinks works in practice. I don’t know if you store the attribute in the history data would it still work. Could you try to remove the turboLinks attribute from the URL using a custom createURL function https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/v2/guides/routing.html#historyopts?