Inconsistent behaviour of transitionTo upon initial load of the app

1

Hi,

I have an Ember with a redirect from the index route that looks like this:

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  beforeModel: function() {
    this.transitionTo('dashboard');
  },
});

This works great whenever I click on a link in my Ember app that goes to index: clicking on browser’s Back button takes me back to the previous route, as expected.

However, upon initial load of the root route (e.g. myemberapp.com/), both the root and /dashboard remain in the browser history, breaking the Back button. I have to click and hold on the Back button and skip the root to really go back to where I was before.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks.

2

Hi alco
I was able to “fix” your scenario by using:

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  beforeModel: function() {
    return this.replaceWith('dashboard');
  },
});

Tested in a new ember-cli project transitioning from “localhost:8000/tests” --(typing in url)–> “localhost:8000/” —beforeModel–> “localhost:8000/dashboard” --(back button)-> “localhost:8000/tests”

Hope that helps.

3

That fixes the initial load but breaks internal transitions.

That is, once the Ember application is loaded and you navigate to multiple routes via internal links, say, /foo -> /bar -> / -(redirected to)-> /dashboard, if you now go back, you’ll end up at /foo because replaceWith has erased /bar from the history.