Question regarding guards and redirection

@jdeanwaite wrote:

This is probably a frequented question or topic of discussion. I feel like I have researched quite a bit but do not feel like I have received a solid answer.

I would like to set up a simple guard that will redirect to a page if the conditions are not met. Using ionViewCanEnter appears inadequate, and navigation from this function seems futile.

The scenario

The scenario seems simple enough: A page requires a user to be authenticated. If navigation is attempted to that page and they are not authenticated, simply redirect them to a login page (that will ultimately redirect them to their desired destination upon successful authentication).

What I have tried

I tried using ionViewCanEnter to handle the situation. Attempted to redirect using NavController did not work (nothing happened, no logs or errors thrown). I then read that the previous view should handle a failed navigation, however this is not possible if the destination page is navigated through using a deep link from outside the app. In that case there is no previous view to handle the failed load.

What I think should be the solution

It seems like the most logical solution would be to have vanilla angular-esque route guards: a service that would allow you to simply redirect instead of causing all of this confusion. Am I wrong?

Is there a better solution out there that I have just blatantly missed?

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