Push State makes redirect reload complete app on login/logout

[MarcScheib]

Hi Paul,

I have aurelias push state configured on my router config config.options.pushState = true;.

This causes the application to reload instead of simply navigating to the defined routes on login/logout.

Instead, when I use e.g. this.router.navigate('/contents');, the navigation is working without reloads.

In your code I can see you were testing the router navigate. Was it not working?

Another idea would be to decouple setToken() and logout() from redirecting so I can call them directly and do the routing on my own.

Right now, for the login I use the following solution:

• explicitly set the loginRedirect config to '' so the complete if-else block will be skipped loginRedirect: ''
• in my signin.js I inject the router and do:

    return this.auth.login(userInfo)
      .then(response => {
        console.log('You signed in successfully.');
        this.router.navigate('/contents');
      })

This fixes the reload of my page and still does a redirect.

However, for the logout, this is no completely working right now. I need to check this again, but when I set logoutRedirect to '' (logoutRedirect: '') it seems like the promise is not resloving. I will reply on this later.

Perhaps I am doing something wrong? Thank you for your reply.

[MarcScheib]

The logout() in authService seems to miss a call on resolve(). As soon as I add this, my logout described in the first post works as well.

[RWOverdijk]

@MarcScheib As far as I know, you might want the reload so the browser will ask you to save the password.

I do agree that some flexibility here might be nice. I'd propose allowing a false value, which will leave the redirecting to the user.

[MarcScheib]

@RWOverdijk Good point. Strange thing is that with my approach I get asked by the browser to store the password. But the prompt appears after the next navigation, not on the one caused by the login navigation.

[RWOverdijk]

Are you sure it's not doing a hard redirect? If not I'm curious how you nailed that :) Anyway, feel free to open up a PR! 🍻