@uplift-ltd/nextjs-use-react-navigation

Installation

npm i --save @uplift-ltd/nextjs-use-react-navigation

API

useRouterNavigation

Exposes stable methods for the navigation methods of NextJS router

import { useRouterNavigation } from "@uplift-ltd/nextjs-use-react-navigation";

export default function MyComponent() {
  const { back, push, replace } = useRouterNavigation();

  const goToProfile = useCallback(() => {
    return push("/profile");
  }, [push]);

  const goToProfileReplaced = useCallback(() => {
    return replace("/profile");
  }, [replace]);

  return (
    <div>
      <button type="button" onClick={back}>
        Go Back
      </button>
      <button type="button" onClick={goToProfile}>
        Go to Profile
      </button>
      <button type="button" onClick={goToProfileReplaced}>
        Go to Profile, replaced
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

useRouterQuery

Nice way of accessing type-safe router.params. By default, the type is narrowed to returning string | undefined instead of the next.js default of string[] | string | undefined. This makes it a bit nicer to use, avoiding the need for checking if the variable is string[].

const Component = () => {
  const { routerQuery } = useRouterQuery();

  const { foo, bar } = routerQuery;
  // routerQuery is essentially Record<string, string | undefined>
  // typeof foo => string | undefined
  // typeof bar => string | undefined
};

You can also pass in a type shape, useful if you expect a key to be an array after all.

type ParamType = {
  foo: string;
  bar: string;
  baz: string[];
  count: number;
};

const Component = () => {
  const { routerQuery } = useRouterQuery<ParamType>();

  const { foo, bar, baz, count, other } = routerQuery;
  //                            ^^^ Error here, 'other' is not defined on ParamType
  // typeof foo => string | undefined
  // typeof bar => string | undefined
  // typeof baz => string[] | undefined
  // typeof count => string | undefined
  // NOTE: ^^^ number gets converted to string because URL params are not parsed
};

You can pass in a string union as a convenience when you only expect params to be of string, but want to type-check access

const Component = () => {
  const { routerQuery } = useRouterQuery<"foo" | "bar" | "count">();

  const { foo, bar, count, other } = routerQuery;
  //                       ^^^ Error here, 'other' is not defined on our union
  // typeof foo => string | undefined
  // typeof bar => string | undefined
  // typeof count => string | undefined
};

useRouterQueryForUrl

An enhanced useRouterQuery hook that looks at your URL and adds the URL param tokens as required keys in the returned object, and allows you to specify the possible query params that might be passed as well. The second type argument functions exactly as the initial type argument found on useRouterQuery.

const USER_DETAIL_URL = "/teams/:teamId/users/:userId";

const Component = () => {
  const { routerQuery } = useRouterQueryForUrl<typeof USER_DETAIL_URL, "foo" | "bar">();

  const { teamId, userId, foo, bar } = routerQuery;
  // typeof teamId => string
  // typeof userId => string
  // typeof foo => string | undefined
  // typeof bar => string | undefined
};

Or, with a more complex type shape

const USER_DETAIL_URL = "/teams/:teamId/users/:userId";

type ParamType = {
  foo: string;
  bar: string;
  baz: string[];
  count: number;
};

const Component = () => {
  const { routerQuery } = useRouterQueryForUrl<typeof USER_DETAIL_URL, ParamType>();

  const { teamId, userId, foo, bar, baz, count, other } = routerQuery;
  //                            ^^^ Error here, 'other' is not defined on ParamType
  // typeof teamId => string
  // typeof userId => string
  // typeof foo => string | undefined
  // typeof bar => string | undefined
  // typeof baz => string[] | undefined
  // typeof count => string | undefined
  // NOTE:  ^^^ number gets converted to string because URL params are not parsed
};