bug: Lifecycle hooks ionViewWillEnter, ionViewDidEnter aren't fired when navigating back to the page

[gultyayev]

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Ionic Framework Version

v7.x

Current Behavior

The ViewWillEnter, ViewDidEnter lifecycle hooks don't fire when I navigate back to the page when popping the stack by pressing the <ion-back-button>

Expected Behavior

According to the documentation those should fire always regardless whether the page was initialized or not.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Click on "Child page"
2. Click on the back button in the header
3. Observe no logs from ViewWillEnter and ViewDidEnter

Code Reproduction URL

https://stackblitz.com/edit/stackblitz-starters-rzsdv4?file=src%2Fmain.ts%3AL72

Ionic Info

Ionic:
Ionic CLI : 7.2.0
Ionic Framework : @ionic/angular 7.7.4
@angular-devkit/build-angular : 17.3.0
@angular-devkit/schematics : 17.3.0
@angular/cli : 17.3.0
@ionic/angular-toolkit : 11.0.1
Capacitor:
Capacitor CLI : 5.7.2
@capacitor/android : 5.7.2
@capacitor/core : 5.7.2
@capacitor/ios : 5.7.2
Utility:
cordova-res : not installed globally
native-run : 2.0.1
System:
NodeJS : v20.11.1 (/Users/shultiaiev/homebrew/Cellar/node@20/20.11.1_1/bin/node)
npm : 10.2.4
OS : macOS Unknown

Additional Information

No response

[thetaPC]

Thank you for submitting the issue!

This is working as intended. When you go from a tabs page to a non-tabs page (your child page), the entire tabs context is considered "leaving". However within the tabs context itself, Tab 1 is still active which is why the lifecycles are not firing on Tab 1 when going to a non-tabs page. You can test this by logging something in the ionViewWillEnter hook on the TabsComponent:

class TabsComponent {
  ionViewDidEnter() {
    console.log('view did enter 2');
  }

  ionViewWillEnter() {
    console.log('view will enter3');
  }
}

There's a workaround that might be of interest to you.

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