vue-pocket-router

A tiny router implementation for Vue.js 3.2+, which will reload the current view when an already active link is clicked and will always recreate your components after navigation.

Why?

Despite a considerable interest of the community and strong arguments to support this behaviour, vue-router ignores active links and has no configuration option for refreshing the view after clicking the same link again. See https://github.com/vuejs/vue-router/issues/974 and related issues.

Also, vue-router does not recreate the view when new URL leads to the same component, which results in lifecycle hooks not firing when they are expected. See https://forum.vuejs.org/t/rerendering-component-on-route-param-change-recalling-created-hooks/9536.

This library can replace vue-router in simple cases to avoid hacking it.

Note that in vue-router@4 there is an undocumented force parameter that can be used to change behaviour of a specific link, but it's not supported by the developers.

Installation

npm install vue-pocket-router

import { createRouter } from 'vue-pocket-router';

app.use(createRouter({
    // options
}));

Usage

The basic API is very similar to vue-router's, so pretty much everything from https://router.vuejs.org/guide/ and https://router.vuejs.org/guide/essentials/dynamic-matching.html applies.

Available options:

• routes (required) – array of objects with the following fields:
  • path (required)
  • component (required)
  • name (optional) – for reverse URL resolving
  • props (optional) – object with values of props to pass to the component
  • meta (optional) – any additional data to store with the route (empty object by default)
• base (optional) – base URL the application is hosted under, e.g. '/app' (note the lack of a trailing slash; empty string by default)

Some differences to vue-router:

• vue-pocket-router operates in HTML5 history mode only.
• Matched URL parameters will be automatically passed to components as props, so there is no need to add props: true in your routes. Parameters are still accessible as $route.params.
• Values of the to prop in router-link component and the argument of $router.push(url)/$router.replace(url) methods must be valid URL strings, not objects. Use $router.resolve(name, params) method, or its shorthand $url(name, params), to obtain URL for a named route with given parameters. If params object contains additional keys other than the route's named segments, they will be appended as a query string.
• To access current query string values, use $route.query (for single values) or $route.queries (for arrays).
• vue-pocket-router uses url-pattern as the path matching library. See its documentation for how to build your route patterns.
• Navigation guards (among other features) are not implemented. You can use a $route watcher instead.

Examples

See test/components/Main.vue and test/index.js.