Navigation

Navigation in mobile applications has a rather complex nature. We use the term 'mobile' here because, at the moment, Mini Apps are designed to resemble mobile applications, so the navigation should follow suit.

Since Mini Apps are web applications meant to emulate mobile interfaces, it's essential to compare browser and mobile navigation mechanisms. It's safe to say that they don't have much in common.

In simple terms, browser navigation operates over a two-linked list of history entries. Developers can navigate through each node using forward or back navigation methods. It's also possible to replace the current entry and add new entries, removing all those placed after the current one.

On the contrary, mobile navigation allows developers to use a multi-navigation context, implying the existence of several navigation contexts across the application.

However, browser navigation comes with rather strict restrictions that make it challenging to comfortably mimic the behavior seen in mobile applications within Telegram Mini Apps. This is why @telegram-apps/sdk provides functionality related to navigation.