vuejs/router vue-router@5.3.1

Prepared source: vue-router@5.3.1, ESM package ("type": "module", package.json:2,20). Peers: vue ^3.5.34 || ^4.0.0; optional vite ^7.3.0 || ^8.0.0, pinia ^3.0.4 || ^4.0.2, @pinia/colada >=0.21.2 (package.json:173-193). Docs: https://router.vuejs.org

Import map

Avoid:

• vue-router/auto — deprecated, will be removed (vue-router-auto.d.ts:1).
• vue-router/experimental in CJS builds — ESM-only since v5.1.0 (https://github.com/vuejs/router/releases/tag/v5.1.0).

Quick start (classic routes)

import { createRouter, createWebHistory } from 'vue-router'

const router = createRouter({
  history: createWebHistory(),
  routes: [
    { path: '/', component: () => import('./pages/Home.vue') },
    { path: '/users/:id', component: () => import('./pages/User.vue'), props: true },
  ],
})
app.use(router)

In components: useRoute() / useRouter() from vue-router; <RouterLink to="..."> and <RouterView> are globally registered by app.use(router).

Quick start (file-based routing)

// vite.config.ts
import VueRouter from 'vue-router/vite'
import Vue from '@vitejs/plugin-vue'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [VueRouter(), Vue()], // Vue plugin MUST come after VueRouter
})

import { createRouter, createWebHistory } from 'vue-router'
import { routes, handleHotUpdate } from 'vue-router/auto-routes'

const router = createRouter({ history: createWebHistory(), routes })
if (import.meta.hot) handleHotUpdate(router)

Pages live in src/pages by default. Start the dev server once to generate typed-router.d.ts, add it to tsconfig.json include with "moduleResolution": "Bundler". Details, naming conventions, and plugin options: references/file-based-routing.md.

Core rules

• Return values from navigation guards, never call next(). next is deprecated (runtime warning since v5.0.3) and will be removed (dist/index-D7ja2BKs.d.ts:362-393, https://github.com/vuejs/router/releases/tag/v5.0.3).

  router.beforeEach(to => {
    if (to.meta.requiresAuth && !isAuthenticated) return { name: 'login' }
    // return nothing, true, false, or a route location
  })
  

• In data loaders, redirect with reroute(to); new NavigationResult(to) is deprecated and logs a warning (dist/experimental/index.js:1106-1111).
• router.currentRoute is a ShallowRef<RouteLocationNormalizedLoaded> — read it as router.currentRoute.value (dist/index-D7ja2BKs.d.ts:1433).
• router.onReady() does not exist (removed in v4); use await router.isReady().
• scrollBehavior returns { top, left } (v4 renamed x/y to left/top).
• Detect failed navigations: const failure = await router.push(...); check with isNavigationFailure(failure, NavigationFailureType.aborted).
• route.meta merges non-recursively from all matched records; read to.meta.requiresAuth directly instead of scanning to.matched. Type meta via RouteMeta module augmentation.
• Use router.beforeResolve (not beforeEach) for work that needs async components resolved.
• Use inject() inside guards to reach Pinia stores (supported since Vue 3.3).
• Decouple components from the router with route props: true or props: route => ({ ... }); pass query values this way to keep components testable.
• Watch narrow sources (() => route.params.id), never the whole route object.

Full core API notes: references/core-api.md.

Typed routes

Enable by using the file-based routing plugin (types are generated automatically), or augment manually:

declare module 'vue-router' {
  interface TypesConfig {
    RouteNamedMap: RouteNamedMap
  }
}

Typed push('/users/:id', { params: { id: 42 } }), typed useRoute(), per-file typing via Volar plugin vue-router/volar/sfc-typed-router. Param parsers (int, bool, custom in src/params/) give typed, validated params; definePage({ params: { query: { page: { parser: 'int', default: 1 } } } }) declares query params. Details: references/typed-routes.md.

Data loaders (experimental)

// src/pages/users/[id].vue
import { defineBasicLoader } from 'vue-router/experimental'
import { reroute } from 'vue-router/experimental'

export const useUserData = defineBasicLoader(async (to) => {
  if (!to.params.id) reroute('/') // reroute throws: stops the loader immediately
  return fetchUser(to.params.id)
})

Install DataLoaderPlugin before the router: app.use(DataLoaderPlugin, { router }). Non-blocking loaders: defineBasicLoader(loader, { lazy: true }); errors then land in error, not in router.onError. Details: references/data-loaders.md.

Version notes (5.0.x → 5.3.1)

• v5.0.7: RouteNamedMap is wired through the generated typed-router.d.ts (https://github.com/vuejs/router/releases/tag/v5.0.7); param parser folders gained include/exclude.
• v5.1.0: typed definePage params.path, defineParamParserRaw, strict default typing, TypesConfig global Router override, experimental export is ESM-only (https://github.com/vuejs/router/releases/tag/v5.1.0).
• v5.2.0: added diagnostics for common mistakes; allows pinia 4 (https://github.com/vuejs/router/releases/tag/v5.2.0).
• v5.3.0: scroll skips when history.scrollRestoration says so; duplicate definePage() reported instead of crashing; EditableTreeNode.name accepts false to unset (https://github.com/vuejs/router/releases/tag/v5.3.0).
• v5.3.1: fixes isActive with non-string params (https://github.com/vuejs/router/releases/tag/v5.3.1).

Migration from v3/v4, or from unplugin-vue-router: references/migration.md.

References

• core-api.md — router creation, histories, guards, failures, scroll, RouterLink/RouterView.
• file-based-routing.md — plugin setup, file naming, definePage, <route> blocks, extendRoute, options.
• typed-routes.md — TypesConfig, generated types, param parsers, experimental_createRouter.
• data-loaders.md — defineBasicLoader, defineColadaLoader, reroute, lazy loaders, SSR notes.
• migration.md — v3→v4 and v4→v5 changes, deprecations in the v5 line.