jargon

Frontend & browser·Routing and navigation

someone pasted a URL from three screens in and it opened exactly that state, not the home page.

Deep link

A URL that addresses a specific state inside the application directly. Supporting it means every meaningful state is reachable from its URL alone, which is what makes sharing, bookmarking and refreshing work. State kept only in memory — an open tab, a chosen filter, a modal — is invisible in the URL, and moving it there is usually the fix people describe as 'making it shareable'.

Commonly confused with