In a project, my intention is to use only one Navigator element to handle all page navigation.
There is one singleton appState all over the code, and navigator is member of that, it gets initialized by the outermost App component.
ReactDOM.render(
<App/>,
document.getElementById('app')
);
The navigator is initiated by:
initialRoute = {
component: LoginPage,
props: {
}};
and
<Ons.Navigator
initialRoute={this.initialRoute}
renderPage={this.renderPage.bind(this)}
/>
and
renderPage(route: Route, navigator: typeof Ons.Navigator) {
const props: any = route.props || {};
if (appState.navigator == null) {
appState.navigator = navigator;
}
props.navigator = appState.navigator;
return React.createElement(route.component, route.props);
}
correctly with initialRoute. When I call pushPage(newRoute), the newRoute is apparently added, when checked at the time of addition. That is, I get the following right after pushing newRoute:
LoginPage
HomePage
However, a subsequent call to pushPage(someOtherRoute) yields
LoginPage
SomeOtherRouteComponent
I would expect
LoginPage
HomePage
SomeOtherRouteComponent
I have verified that there is no issue with synchronization etc, when I push the route object to an aside list, I get everything without any loss. But just pushPage is not working as I expect.
Any ideas, or missing something obvious? The snippets are TS.
It appears that any error during page load is caught by Navigator, and that causes the page to be not added into routes (but the page is still navigated to).
I have filed an issue on github with a workaround. An alternative workaround is to make sure that there are no JS errors during page load, which may not be 100% the case given 3rd party modules are present.
Related
I have a route in my app that can be navigated to from two different locations.
Specifically:
Home screen (StackNavigation) -> target route
Tab navigation -> target route
I have noticed that react navigation re-uses the same target route component (does not re-mount) regardless of which way the target route is navigated too.
Unfortunately, this means that route params are always the same as the first method used to navigate to the target route.
I would like to focus an input search box when the target route is navigated to from the home screen, but not when navigated via tab navigation.
Initially I was using this code:
useEffect(() => {
const _focusSearchBar = (payload) => {
if (props.navigation.getParam('shouldFocus') && searchBar && searchBar.current) {
searchBar.current.focus();
}
}
let focusSub = props.navigation.addListener('didFocus', _focusSearchBar);
_focusSearchBar();
return () => focusSub.remove();
}, []);
How can I achieve this? Also the target route loads data, so it is probably a good thing that it doesn't remount...
In essence I need a way of determining how the route was navigated too, through the home screen or via tab navigation.
Thanks!
Read https://reactnavigation.org/docs/en/navigating.html#navigate-to-a-route-multiple-times
you need to use navigation.push() to run copies of your component with different params.
If a user navigates to www.example.com/one and clicks the back button, I want to redirect them to www.example.com.
I think it's a common problem, but I haven't found a solution yet.
Hooks version (React 16.8+):
Minimal version.
import { useHistory } from "react-router-dom";
export const Item = () => {
let history = useHistory();
return (
<>
<button onClick={() => history.goBack()}>Back</button>
</>
);
};
In react-router-dom v6 useHistory() is replaced by useNavigate(). so use useNavigate() inplace of useHistory() this way.
import { useNavigate} from "react-router-dom";
export const Item = () => {
let navigate = useNavigate();
return (
<>
<button onClick={() => navigate(-1)}>Back</button>
</>
);
};
for more on useNavigate visit this: https://reactrouter.com/docs/en/v6/hooks/use-navigate
You can try with two options, either you can use push method or goBack method from history of the router. Normally history props will available if you directly route the component via Route method or pass the history props to child component and use it.
Sample Code given below
this.props.history.push('/') //this will go to home page
or
this.props.history.goBack() //this will go to previous page
For your problem you try with push method and give the exact url you to move on.
For more reference visit https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/api/history
What you want is this:
Let's say a person goes to a single page in your website such as: www.yoursite.com/category/books/romeo-and-juliet
In this page, you want to show a "Back" button that links you to one upper directory which is: www.yoursite.com/category/books/
This is breadcrumb system that we famously had in vBulletin forums and such.
Here is a basic solution to this:
let url = window.location.href;
let backButtonUrl = "";
if (url.charAt(url.length - 1) === "/") {
backButtonUrl = url.slice(0, url.lastIndexOf("/"));
backButtonUrl = backButtonUrl.slice(0, backButtonUrl.lastIndexOf("/"));
} else {
backButtonUrl = url.slice(0, url.lastIndexOf("/"));
}
What it basically does is:
1. Get the current URL from browser
2. Check if there is a "/" (slash) at the end of the link.
a. If there is: remove the slash, and remove everything the last slash
b. If there is not: remove everything last slash.
You can use {backButtonUrl} as your Go Back button link.
Note: it does not have anything to do with React Router, history, etc.
Note 2: Assuming you are using a link architecture that goes like www.site.com/word/letter/character
If you want to use it with react-router-dom library, then you need to set your url variable like this:
let url = this.props.match.url;
I found a solution. It's not beautiful but it works.
class Restaurant extends Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.props.history.push('/');
this.props.history.push(this.props.match.url);
}
...
I've had the same problem today. I have the following flow in one of the applications I'm working on:
User fills out a registration form
User enters credit card "payment page"
When payment is successful, the user sees a "payment confirmation" page.
I want to prevent the users from navigating from the "payment confirmation" (3) page back to any previous steps in the payment flow (1 and 2).
The best thing to do would be not to use routes to control which content is displayed, and use state instead. If you cannot afford to do that,
I found two practical ways to solve the problem:
Using React-Router:
When you hit the back button, React Router's history object will look like this:
When you go to any page using history.push record the page you are visiting in the state
Create a decorator, HOC, or whatever type of wrapper you prefer around the React-Router's Route component. In this component: If history.action === "POP" and "history.state.lastVisited === <some page with back navigation disabled>", then you should redirect your user to the /home page using history.replace
Another way to do is is by going to the /home page directly:
Use history.action to detect the back button was used, then:
Change location.href to equal the page you want to visit
Call location.reload(). This will reload the application, and the history will be reset
Browser back button works on your routes history. It will not invoke your programmatically handled routing. That's the point where we should keep maintain history stack with react router. If you are at route '/' and push '/home'. On browser back button it will pop '/home and will go back to '/'.
Even If you implementButton component for go back functionality and use react router history props. Believe me you have to carefully manage your navigation to maintain browser history stack appropriately. So it behaves same like whether you press browser back button or your app Button to go back or go forward.
I hope this would be helpful.
We wanted something similar for our React app and unfortunately this was the best solution we came up with. This is particularly helpful when our users are on mobile devices and they land on a specific page on our site from an ad or a referrer.
This is in our main routes.tsx file.
useEffect(() => {
// The path that the user is supposed to go to
const destinationPath = location.pathname;
// If our site was opened in a new window or tab and accessed directly
// OR the page before this one was NOT a page on our site, then...
if (
document.referrer === window.location.href ||
document.referrer.indexOf(window.location.host) === -1
) {
// Replaces the current pathname with the homepage
history.replace("/");
// Then pushes to the path the user was supposed to go to
history.push(destinationPath);
}
}, []);
Now when a user presses the back button, it takes the user to our homepage instead of being stuck within the "nested" route they were in.
NOTE: There are some small quirks with this implementation. Our app is also a Cordova app so we NEED to have our own back button. This implementation works well with our own back button but does not seem to work with the native browser's back button; hence, it worked well for our needs.
I'm not able to put a react-router-dom Link inside of a react-google-maps InfoBox without causing a full page reload.
Here's the code for my InfoBox:
import InfoBox from 'react-google-maps/lib/components/addons/InfoBox'
import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
class MyInfoBox extends Component {
...
const options = {
enableEventPropagation:false,
position: new google.maps.LatLng(loc.latitude, loc.longitude)
};
render(){
return (
<InfoBox options={options}>
<Link to={`/location/${loc.id}`}>Go To Location</Link>
</InfoBox>
);
}
}
All Links in my app work correctly, except for this one.
When the "Go To Location" link is clicked, a full-page reload is caused. I've tried to diagnose by following this issue: https://github.com/tomchentw/react-google-maps/issues/258, but I really don't know enough about the react router v4 to find out if the context contains the router object. Changing the value of enableEventPropagation does not change the behavior.
If anyone can help me understand why the Link is causing a page reload, I would really appreciate it.
Thank you in advance!
Try removing onClick prop in <GoogleMap> component and add enableEventPropagation: true to <InfoBox> options.
For me the issue was that <GoogleMap> onClick event was used to remove <InfoBox> when user clicks outside it. But turns out it is called also inside <InfoBox> so basically it was removing <InfoBox> with the <Link> inside it, before handling <Link> click.
I need to check between Facebook's expiration date and the current date when I enter in two different components. Dashboard and Pages. Both have this:
componentWillMount() {
const { linkedAccount, clearLinkedAccounts, getFacebookPages } = this.props
const now = moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')
if (linkedAccount) {
if (now < linkedAccount.expiresIn) {
getFacebookPages()
} else {
clearLinkedAccounts()
}
}
}
componentWillUnmount() {
const { linkedAccount, clearLinkedAccounts } = this.props
const now = moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')
if (linkedAccount && now > linkedAccount.expiresIn) {
clearLinkedAccounts()
}
}
But only when refreshing the page manually, the clearLinkedAccounts() is executed, by running componentWillMount, but before leaving it, it doesn't. I want it to be executed, if necessary, before entering in another route.
Refreshing the page is not like going from a page to another page inside the same single app context. React router allows you to go from a page to another within a React single app with tag like Link. It is why react router is so useful!
When you click on a link to go to another page with Link, the React single app is still active. As a result, componentWillUnmount wil lbe called because the single app is able to unmount component.
When you refresh the page (F5), a new page is loaded. As a result, the entire existing single app is removed and given to the browser garbage collector. In that case, you have no control on React component. So impossible to call componentWillUnmount because there is no more components at all.
There's a certain page in my React app that I would like to prevent the user from leaving if the form is dirty.
In my react-routes, I am using the onLeave prop like this:
<Route path="dependent" component={DependentDetails} onLeave={checkForm}/>
And my onLeave is:
const checkForm = (nextState, replace, cb) => {
if (form.IsDirty) {
console.log('Leaving so soon?');
// I would like to stay on the same page somehow...
}
};
Is there a way to prevent the new route from firing and keep the user on the same page?
It is too late but according to the React Router Documentation you can use preventing transition with helping of <prompt> component.
<Prompt
when={isBlocking}
message={location =>
`Are you sure you want to go to ${location.pathname}`
}
/>
if isBlocking equal to true it shows a message. for more information you can read the documentation.
I think the recommended approach has changed since Lazarev's answer, since his linked example is no longer currently in the examples folder. Instead, I think you should follow this example by defining:
componentWillMount() {
this.props.router.setRouteLeaveHook(
this.props.route,
this.routerWillLeave
)
},
And then define routerWillLeave to be a function that returns a string which will appear in a confirmation alert.
UPDATE
The previous link is now outdated and unavailable. In newer versions of React Router it appears there is a new component Prompt that can be used to cancel/control navigation. See this example
react-router v6 no longer supports the Prompt component (they say that they hope to add it back once they have an acceptable implementation). However, react-router makes use of the history package which offers the following example for how to block transitions.
Note that to actually make this work in react router you have to replace the createBrowserHistory call with some hackery to make sure you are using the same history object as react router (see bottom of answer).
const history = createBrowserHistory();
let unblock = history.block((tx) => {
// Navigation was blocked! Let's show a confirmation dialog
// so the user can decide if they actually want to navigate
// away and discard changes they've made in the current page.
let url = tx.location.pathname;
if (window.confirm(`Are you sure you want to go to ${url}?`)) {
// Unblock the navigation.
unblock();
// Retry the transition.
tx.retry();
}
You'll need to put this inside the appropriate useEffect hook and build the rest of the functionality that would have otherwise been provided by prompt. Note that this will also produce an (uncustomizable) warning if the user tries to navigate away but closing the tab or refreshing the page indicating that unsaved work may not be saved.
Please read the linked page as there are some drawbacks to using this functionality. Specifically, it adds an event listener to the beforeunload event which makes the page ineligable for the bfcache in firefox (though the code attempts to deregister the handler if the navigation is cancelled I'm not sure this restores salvageable status) I presume it's these issues which caused react-router to disable the Prompt component.
WARING to access history in reactrouter 6 you need to follow something like the instructions here which is a bit of a hack. Initially, I assumed that you could just use createBrowserHistory to access the history object as that code is illustrated in the react router documentation but (a bit confusingly imo) it was intended only to illustrate the idea of what the history does.
We're using React Router V5, and our site needed a custom prompt message to show up, and this medium article helped me understand how that was possible
TLDR: the <Prompt/> component from react-router-dom can accept a function as the message prop, and if that function returns true you'll continue in the navigation, and if false the navigation will be blocked
React-router api provides a Transition object for such cases, you can create a hook in a willTransitionTo lifecycle method of the component, you are using. Something like (code taken from react-router examples on the github):
var Form = React.createClass({
mixins: [ Router.Navigation ],
statics: {
willTransitionFrom: function (transition, element) {
if (element.refs.userInput.getDOMNode().value !== '') {
if (!confirm('You have unsaved information, are you sure you want to leave this page?')) {
transition.abort();
}
}
}
},
handleSubmit: function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
this.refs.userInput.getDOMNode().value = '';
this.transitionTo('/');
},
render: function () {
return (
<div>
<form onSubmit={this.handleSubmit}>
<p>Click the dashboard link with text in the input.</p>
<input type="text" ref="userInput" defaultValue="ohai" />
<button type="submit">Go</button>
</form>
</div>
);
}
});