In most e-commerce platforms, when a user selects a specific variant, the URL reflects that variant with a search parameter like in this case ->
you can see ?variant=39817439379514 appended to the URL. If I use this specific URL, I will land on the page with the ‘Peppercorn’ and ‘L’ variants selected.
In magento, the URL remains static despite the variants that are selected as shown in the photos attached. Whenever I land on this magento product, no variant options will be selected. In the application I’m building, we want each variant to be searchable through specific URLs. 
I know you can change the product configurations to be visible by URL, but this creates a separate page for the variant, which is not the UI experience I want.
Does Magento support this functionality? If not, is there another way I can configure the store to make this happen?