Alias for vue route with parameter

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I have a user profile route like this /user/Mary/profile where I can see any users profile and I want to create an alias like /me/profile so that the user name parameter is hidden and use a constant instead for that parameter.

Something like:

const myUserName = 'Mike';

export default [
  {
    name: 'user',
    path: 'user/:username',
    alias: 'me',
    component: () => import('components/user-layout'),
    children: [
      {
        name: 'user-profile',
        path: 'profile',
        component: () => import('components/user-profile'),
      },
    ],
  },
];

I'm not sure if above is correct and how I should set the username parameter to the myUserName constant in case of user access /me/profile.

** I DON'T want to username param to be myUserName by default, it will be only in case of user access that route by the /me alias

Oswaldo · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-12 19:31:58Z

2

Ok, so I ended up by creating another route for /me and didn't make alias or redirected, just a normal route with shared children between it and /user, like this:

import userChildrenRoutes from './user-children.routes';

export default [
  {
    name: 'me',
    path: 'me',
    component: () => import('components/user-layout'),
    children: userChildrenRoutes,
  },
  {
    name: 'user',
    path: 'user/:username',
    component: () => import('components/user-profile'),
    children: userChildrenRoutes,
  },
];

and in beforeEnter hook I can handle the username.

answered Sep 12, 2019 at 19:31

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dganenco · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-12 12:06:43Z

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As far as I understand you can't use alias for dynamic routes. I' suggest you to simply create another root called me and redirect it to /user/yourUserName. I've prepared a sample fiddle.

const router = new VueRouter({
  mode: 'history',
  routes: [
    { path: '/', name: 'home', component: Home },
    { path: '/foo', name: 'foo', component: Foo },
        { path: '/user/:username', name: 'user', component: User, children: [
      {
        name: 'user-profile',
        path: 'profile',
        component: Profile,
      },
    ]},
        {path: '/me', redirect: `/user/${someWhereFromSessionUserName}`}
  ]
});

answered Sep 12, 2019 at 12:06

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Oswaldo Over a year ago

Thank you very much @dganenco for your dedicated time on this answer, but it doesn't solve my problem because I need to keep showing the /me url for the user instead of redirecting it to /user

dganenco Over a year ago

In this case you can try to use navigation guards and especially beforeEach() hook. I've updated the fiddle and please let me know if it works. It's a really good question.

Oswaldo Over a year ago

thx, I've tried this before and didn't work, I couldn't see /me in browser address bar, I have managed it by creating another independent route as you can see in my answer

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