Detect if route is initial page load with Reach Router?

Asked Sep 12 '19 at 08:29

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I have 2 routes in my app: / and /about. If a user first visits / and then navigates to /about then no special behaviour is required. However they refresh the page when on /about, or if the initial visit is to /about then I need to detect this and do something.

How can I do this? Do I need to createHistory first?

https://reach.tech/router/api/createHistory

asked Sep 12 '19 at 08:29

Evanss

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Depends. What are you trying to do? – Cool Guy Sep 12 '19 at 08:35
Im still working out the UX, but probably redirect the user back to the homepage and also dispatch a Redux action. – Evanss Sep 12 '19 at 08:36
This may help https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45373742/detect-route-change-with-react-router – Sathishkumar Rakkiasamy Sep 12 '19 at 08:41
I forgot to mention, ill probably also need to get any URL params and pass them to Redux – Evanss Sep 12 '19 at 08:42
@SathishkumarRakkiasamy FYI I'm using Reach Router not React Router. – Evanss Sep 12 '19 at 08:46

Detect if route is initial page load with Reach Router?

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