External url navigation

[Abiola Beyond]

Navigation to external url address or domain not working. Example the anchor or naviagte('https://google.com') does not route to the external url but keeps matching the pathname to the Internal routes. Please I really need help with this. Thanks in advance.

[Christian Engel]

Hm, what did you expect? Calling navigate() passes an URL fragment to the router to match it. Its not supposed to get passed full urls with domain and everything.

Why don't you place a traditional <a> tag, if you want to create a link to another domain?

[Abiola Beyond]

Thanks a lot For the reply. I actually did mention the normal <a href='https://google.com>google</a> where I wrote anchor and it surprising now that it's not there. It could be a typing issue, please pardon my mistake. I tried the normal <a> tag several times but it was the same effect because normally if I use <a> tag to replace the hookrouter <A> Component, the result is the same by navigate to the desired route. It just occurred to me right now that such could happen if the <a> and <A> performs the same thing. Please I really need the feature Sir.

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On Wed, May 20, 2020, 16:14 Christian Engel ***@***.***> wrote: Hm, what did you expect? Calling navigate() passes an URL fragment to the router to match it. Its not supposed to get passed full urls with domain and everything. Why don't you place a traditional <a> tag, if you want to create a link to another domain? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#125 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ALNIZUJWO65MM2MOMIGW2DDRSPXT7ANCNFSM4NF5KWQA> .

[Christian Engel]

Okay, wait a sec. If you import the <A> component from hookrouter, that would not work with external URLs, because it passes everything to navigate.

If you want to create a link to another website, use the <a> component instead!

[Abiola Beyond]

I am totally confused because it's not navigating to another website even with tag but only tries to match the href to the routes and if none is found the not found page declared is rendered. Can I share the code now please?

[Christian Engel]

You should have been provided a code example on codesandbox.io in the first place so I can give any help at all :)

[Abiola Beyond]

Thanks a lot Sir. While preparing the sandbox sample, I've got to know the issue. The issue is the addition of http:// or https:// before the actual URL like https://the-desired-url, else it will see it as internalized route link even if <a> tag is used. If the href start with "/" it will try to find the matching route else it will concatenate the href to the current route. Thanks for your quick reply and helping mind Sir. In addition I think it will be good to have the list of sites using the hookrouter in the documentation and I'll be glad to include the one I'm working on as well, so as to increase its awareness and I'm huge fan and ambassador of hookrouter due to its simplicity.

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On Wed, May 20, 2020, 17:15 Christian Engel ***@***.***> wrote: You should have been provided a code example on codesandbox.io in the first place so I can give any help at all :) — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#125 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ALNIZUOEH2WDU6CGZGWZBBTRSP633ANCNFSM4NF5KWQA> .

[Abiola Beyond]

The is resolved.

[Dave Schinkel]

Someone really needs someone to update the docs then. I assumed would also redirect not only to paths, but external urls.