I'm learning Nuxt.js and I'm puzzled by how difficult it seems to be to simply redirect a user to another page from a method that is triggered via a click.
Here is the set up: I'm using Nuxt Auth to authenticate users, once authenticated I want them to be forwarded away from the signup page to another route. I already have middleware set up that redirect logged-in users, but it is only triggered when I refresh the page, not when I first log them in.
I have a method like this:
async login(event) {
event.preventDefault()
try {
await this.$auth.loginWith('local', this.loginData)
// this is where my redirect logic should go
} catch(error) { ... }
}
So far I've tried using this.$nuxt.refresh() which doesn't do anything at all and I've also tried this.$router.push('/route') which seems to hang the page completely. Ideally, I would prefer the refresh approach so that I don't have to specify the landing page for logged in users in multiple places, but I also need to know how to use redirections inside methods, I would have thought it should be the most simple operation imaginable and yet it seems to be difficult to find.
Any tips would be highly appreciated!
UPDATE:
I've found a solution, although it's not an ideal one. I've added an if-statement into beforeCreate that checks this.$auth.loggedIn and if it's true, then it calls this.$auth.redirect('home') when "home" is defined in nuxt.config.js under auth redirect. The reason this solution is not ideal is that it relies on the auth module (as opposed to being a general redirect mechanism).
