NavigationContext

In addition to visit and remote, the NavigationContext provides a few other methods and properties that are best decribed in the context of navigateTo.

import { NavigationContext } from '@thoughtbot/superglue'

const {
  navigateTo,
  visit,
  remote,
  pageKey,
  search
} = useContext(NavigationContext)

- [:octicons-arrow-right-24: See complete reference](../reference/types/#navigationcontextprops) for `NavigationContext`

navigateTo

Fundamentally, visit is responsible for fetching a page, saving it, and lastly use navigateTo to load the page, update the url, and swap the page component. The NavigationContext exposes navigateTo for you to use use independently. For example:

navigateTo('/posts')

!!! Note The page must exist in the store, or navigateTo will throw a error. Use copyPage to prepopulate before navigating.

navigateTo is especially useful for optimistic navigation like local facted search and works best when combined with search and pageKey from the same NavigationContext, and the copyPage action.

In this example, we'll assume we're on pageKey "/posts":

import { copyPage, NavigationContext } from '@thoughtbot/superglue'
import { myAppDispatch } from '@myJavascript/store'

// In your component somewhere
const {
  navigateTo,
  pageKey,
  search
} = useContext(NavigationContext)

const nextPageKey = pageKey + "?active=true"
dispatch(copyPage({from: pageKey, to: nextPageKey}))

// On a click handler
navigateTo(nextPageKey, { action: 'push'})

// later after navigation.
console.log(search) // would return {active: "true"}

With the above, we're able to make use of the URL search param as a source of state. And by using navigateTo, we're able to filter local results while updating the URL.

- [:octicons-arrow-right-24: See complete reference](reference/types.md#navigateto-1) for `navigateTo`