Expose history as prop on stencil-router

[Anthony Johnston]

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1.0.1

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Current behavior:
I have an auth component in the app-root same place as the stencil-router
this component is used on all "pages" so it part of the flow outside the router
it raises events which require routing but RouterHistory is not available here, I have also tried injectHistory

Expected behavior:
May we have the state property exposed so that we can use ref to get hold of it to do programmatic navigation?

Related code:
https://github.com/ionic-team/stencil-router/blob/master/packages/router/src/components/router/router.tsx#L47

[Sipke Schoorstra]

I have a similar issue: I have a side bar menu that lives outside of <stencil-route-switch>. When a user clicks on a menu item, I want to programmatically "redirect" the user using history.

[Sipke Schoorstra]

I was able to work around the issue by invoking the following line after my component class declaration:

@Component({...})
export class SideBar
{
   @Prop() history: RouterHistory;
...
}

injectHistory(SideBar);

With that in place, my SideBar component will now have a value assigned to the history property.

[Anthony Johnston]

the docs outline the solution you mention
but it doesn't work for the root element containing the stencil-router element

I take that back!
injectHistory does work on the app-root - thanks for encouraging me to try again

I'll close this