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ion-router

The router is a component for handling routing inside vanilla and Stencil JavaScript projects.

Note: this component should only be used with vanilla and Stencil JavaScript projects. For Angular projects, use ion-router-outlet and the Angular router.

Apps should have a single ion-router component in the codebase. This component controls all interactions with the browser history and it aggregates updates through an event system.

ion-router is just a URL coordinator for the navigation outlets of ionic: ion-nav and ion-tabs.

That means the ion-router never touches the DOM, it does NOT show the components or emit any kind of lifecycle events, it just tells ion-nav and ion-tabs what and when to "show" based on the browser's URL.

In order to configure this relationship between components (to load/select) and URLs, ion-router uses a declarative syntax using JSX/HTML to define a tree of routes.

Usage

<ion-router>
  <ion-route component="page-tabs">
    <ion-route url="/schedule" component="tab-schedule">
      <ion-route component="page-schedule"></ion-route>
      <ion-route url="/session/:sessionId" component="page-session"></ion-route>
    </ion-route>

    <ion-route url="/speakers" component="tab-speaker">
      <ion-route component="page-speaker-list"></ion-route>
      <ion-route url="/session/:sessionId" component="page-session"></ion-route>
      <ion-route url="/:speakerId" component="page-speaker-detail"></ion-route>
    </ion-route>

    <ion-route url="/map" component="page-map"></ion-route>
    <ion-route url="/about" component="page-about"></ion-route>
  </ion-route>

  <ion-route url="/tutorial" component="page-tutorial"></ion-route>
  <ion-route url="/login" component="page-login"></ion-route>
  <ion-route url="/account" component="page-account"></ion-route>
  <ion-route url="/signup" component="page-signup"></ion-route>
  <ion-route url="/support" component="page-support"></ion-route>
</ion-router>

Properties

root

Description

By default ion-router will match the routes at the root path ("/"). That can be changed when

Attributeroot
Typestring
Default'/'

useHash

Description

The router can work in two "modes":

  • With hash: /index.html#/path/to/page
  • Without hash: /path/to/page

Using one or another might depend in the requirements of your app and/or where it's deployed.

Usually "hash-less" navigation works better for SEO and it's more user friendly too, but it might requires additional server-side configuration in order to properly work.

On the otherside hash-navigation is much easier to deploy, it even works over the file protocol.

By default, this property is true, change to false to allow hash-less URLs.

Attributeuse-hash
Typeboolean
Defaulttrue

Events

NameDescription
ionRouteDidChangeEmitted when the route had changed
ionRouteWillChangeEvent emitted when the route is about to change

Methods

back

Description

Go back to previous page in the window.history.

Signatureback() => Promise<void>

push

Description

Navigate to the specified URL.

Signaturepush(url: string, direction?: RouterDirection) => Promise<boolean>