useRouter

<script setup lang="ts">
const router = useRouter()
</script>

If you only need the router instance within your template, use $router:

<template>
  <button @click="$router.back()">Back</button>
</template>

If you have a pages/ directory, useRouter is identical in behavior to the one provided by vue-router.

Basic Manipulation

• addRoute(): Add a new route to the router instance. parentName can be provided to add new route as the child of an existing route.
• removeRoute(): Remove an existing route by its name.
• getRoutes(): Get a full list of all the route records.
• hasRoute(): Checks if a route with a given name exists.
• resolve(): Returns the normalized version of a route location. Also includes an href property that includes any existing base.

const router = useRouter()

router.addRoute({ name: 'home', path: '/home', component: Home })
router.removeRoute('home')
router.getRoutes()
router.hasRoute('home')
router.resolve({ name: 'home' })

Based on History API

• back(): Go back in history if possible, same as router.go(-1).
• forward(): Go forward in history if possible, same as router.go(1).
• go(): Move forward or backward through the history without the hierarchical restrictions enforced in router.back() and router.forward().
• push(): Programmatically navigate to a new URL by pushing an entry in the history stack. It is recommended to use navigateTo instead.
• replace(): Programmatically navigate to a new URL by replacing the current entry in the routes history stack. It is recommended to use navigateTo instead.

const router = useRouter()

router.back()
router.forward()
router.go(3)
router.push({ path: "/home" })
router.replace({ hash: "#bio" })

Navigation Guards

useRouter composable provides afterEach, beforeEach and beforeResolve helper methods that acts as navigation guards.

However, Nuxt has a concept of route middleware that simplifies the implementation of navigation guards and provides a better developer experience.

Promise and Error Handling

• isReady(): Returns a Promise that resolves when the router has completed the initial navigation.
• onError: Adds an error handler that is called every time a non caught error happens during navigation.

Universal Router Instance

If you do not have a pages/ folder, then useRouter will return a universal router instance with similar helper methods, but be aware that not all features may be supported or behave in exactly the same way as with vue-router.