Two routes being resolved after using navigateTo, even with 'replace: true' option

[AloisSeckar]

In my application I have a link in template like that:

<a @click='toPreview(data.data.urlFormulare)'>LINK</a>

The referenced method does following - puts url param into store (useQueryXml is a useState wrapper), so ZadostPreview page can read it and fetch the actual data, and then performs redirect to desired location

function toPreview(url: string) {
    useQueryXml().value.url = url;
    return navigateTo('/zadost/preview', { replace: true } )
}

I think I cannot just use NuxtLink for that because urlFormulare is pretty nasty and long string (it is being passed as it is to back-end 3rd party content management system, that returns the actual data) so I don't want to pass it as a dynamic route param. (Maybe this is wrong approach and I should reconsider it?)

The problem with my solution is, that it doesn't work. When I am watching the routing either inside useRouter().beforeEach or inside global defineNuxtRouteMiddleware, I see the method is being called two times.

First redirection goes correctly from current /zadost/search to /zadost/preview, but right after that there is another call /zadost/search to /zadost/search. And page content remains the same. It only "works" when I click the link another time time. Then the redirect goes /zadost/search to /zadost/preview and then /zadost/preview to /zadost/preview and the contents change to what I expected to see.

I run my project with ssr: false option, so all the navigation should be client-side.

I thought passing {replace: true} options object into navigateTo function would prevent exactly such behaviour caused by another route being pushed into router instance instead of being replaced. But either it doesn't work for some syntax reason (passing {external: true/false} the same way worked, I tried that to make sure), or it does something else then I think. I feel like I cannot grasp some basics of how Nuxt works, so maybe the answer is quite simple. Thanks for any clues.