molefrog / molefrog/wouter

Navigate doesn't clear search params

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Description

Calling navigate('/foo') will leave search params in place unless there's a replacement search string after the /foo. I don't know why I'd want search to persist between different pages. And if I did, I could always do it manually with navigate(`/foo?${search}`).

This caused me issues where I have a couple routes that use similarly named search params, but whose values absolutely shouldn't carry over. So now I have to do navigate('/foo?dummy') in all of my navigation logic to prevent this behavior.

This really shouldn't be the default that people have to fight with.

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Research direction

Start at the navigate('/foo') entry point described in the issue and trace how the destination URL is assembled when no replacement search string is provided. Done means navigation to another path clears the existing search parameters by default while an explicitly supplied search string still works; the payload names no files or tests to run.

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Assessment

Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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