Navigate does not cause render if route stays the same and only params change about react-mini-router

[larrymyers]

Can you verify that you are hitting the route handler method that creates the PreviewPage component after calling navigate? Navigate should just trigger a render() call on the component that has the RouteMixin applied to it.

Navigate doesn't do any magic, it's still up to the root component of your app (or Store if using a flux implementation) to make sure the current app state matches the current url.

[molson504x]

I can confirm that both of those methods are getting hit... I think I see where I'm messing up. In my PreviewPage component, I'm doing my initial ajax call in my componentWillMount() handler and never updating it in my componentWillUpdate().

Solution was to write a componentWillUpdate() that makes the same ajax call as my componentWillMount() and write a shouldComponentUpdate() method to handle setting state on the callback from my ajax call. Without the shouldComponentUpdate() you essentially DDoS yourself because it'll keep repeating the call.

Thanks for making a good component! I'm marking this as closed.

[larrymyers]

Great. Glad to hear you were able to solve your issue.