vueJS 3.x: navigate from page after HTML form-submit - vue.js

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Versions:
vueJS: 3.0.0
vuex: 4.0.2
Chrome: Version 94.0.4606.61 (Official Build) (x86_64)
One advantage of SPA frameworks like vueJS is that they offer some efficiencies in network consumption (ie, fewer server hits by delivering UI/UX assets to client in bulk, and hopefully minimizing server requests). But I'm running into a scenario where just the opposite happens: ie, I am required to revisit the server in order to navigate between vueJS components/views. This seems highly contradictory to the SPA ethos, and I'm suspicious something simple must be wrong in my setup. Details follow.
router/index.js:
import { createRouter, createWebHistory } from 'vue-router'
import Home from '#/views/Home.vue'
import Car from '#/views/Car.vue'
import Bike from '#/views/Bike.vue'
const routes = [
{
path: '/',
name: 'Home',
component: Home
},
{
path: '/about',
name: 'About',
// route level code-splitting
// this generates a separate chunk (about.[hash].js) for this route
// which is lazy-loaded when the route is visited.
component: () => import(/* webpackChunkName: "about" */ '#/views/About.vue')
},
{
path: '/cars/new',
name: 'New Car',
component: Car
},
{
path: '/cars/:id',
name: 'Edit Car',
component: Car,
props: true
},
{
path: '/bikes/new',
name: 'New Bike',
component: Bike
}
]
const router = createRouter({
history: createWebHistory(process.env.BASE_URL),
routes
})
export default router
Then in Car.vue component, I have a form-submit handler something like this:
handleSubmit(event) {
let form = event.target;
if (form.checkValidity()) {
// Add or update Car.
window.location.href = window.location.origin + process.env['BASE_URL'];
}
this.wasValidated = true
Rather than using window.location.href, I tried to use:
this.$router.push('Home');
But that had no effect. That is, the URL in the browser address bar began as something like http://localhost:8080/myapp/, and remained that way after the router-push.
I also tried pushing to other routes, like About; in that case, the browser address bar properly toggled to http://localhost:8080/myapp/about, but the page content remained the same!
Clearly, this cannot be the right behavior.
Can you suggest how to fix this?

Answer 1

this.$router.push('Home') tries to push 'Home' as a path, but there's no matching path in your router config, nor is there a fallback route (for 404s), so the route simply doesn't change.
If you meant to push the route by name, the $router.push() argument needs to be an object:
this.$router.push({ name: 'Home' })
If you prefer to use a path, the path of Home is actually /:
this.$router.push('/')