Vue Router Best Practices

Vue Router best practices, common gotchas, and navigation patterns.

Navigation Guards

• Navigating between same route with different params → See router-beforeenter-no-param-trigger
• Accessing component instance in beforeRouteEnter guard → See router-beforerouteenter-no-this
• Navigation guard making API calls without awaiting → See router-guard-async-await-pattern
• Users trapped in infinite redirect loops → See router-navigation-guard-infinite-loop
• Navigation guard using deprecated next() function → See router-navigation-guard-next-deprecated

Route Lifecycle

• Stale data when navigating between same route → See router-param-change-no-lifecycle
• Event listeners persisting after component unmounts → See router-simple-routing-cleanup

Setup

• Building production single-page application → See router-use-vue-router-for-production

GitHub Owner

Owner: vuejs-ai

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router-beforeenter-no-param-trigger

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router-beforerouteenter-no-this

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router-guard-async-await-pattern

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router-navigation-guard-infinite-loop

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router-navigation-guard-next-deprecated

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router-param-change-no-lifecycle

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router-simple-routing-cleanup

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router-use-vue-router-for-production

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name: vue-router-best-practices description: "Vue Router 4 patterns, navigation guards, route params, and route-component lifecycle interactions." version: 1.0.0 license: MIT author: github.com/vuejs-ai

Vue Router best practices, common gotchas, and navigation patterns.

Navigation Guards

• Navigating between same route with different params → See router-beforeenter-no-param-trigger
• Accessing component instance in beforeRouteEnter guard → See router-beforerouteenter-no-this
• Navigation guard making API calls without awaiting → See router-guard-async-await-pattern
• Users trapped in infinite redirect loops → See router-navigation-guard-infinite-loop
• Navigation guard using deprecated next() function → See router-navigation-guard-next-deprecated

Route Lifecycle

• Stale data when navigating between same route → See router-param-change-no-lifecycle
• Event listeners persisting after component unmounts → See router-simple-routing-cleanup

Setup

• Building production single-page application → See router-use-vue-router-for-production