How to prevent the page from scrolling after route changes in Nuxt?

Question

I have a Nuxt project. When I change the route from http://localhost:3000/catalog/postery to http://localhost:3000/catalog/postery/all?photos[]=262, My page scrolls to the top only after my route changes

My file scrollBehavior.js:

export default async function (to, from, savedPosition) {
  
  if (
    (to.path.indexOf("/catalog/") !== -1 &&
      to.path.indexOf("/all") === -1 &&
      Object.keys(to.query).length > 0) || 
    (to.path.indexOf("/search") !== -1 && Object.keys(to.query).length > 0) || 
    (to.name === "product-type-id" && Object.keys(to.query).length > 0) || 
    (from.name === "product-type-id" &&
      to.name === "product-type-id" &&
      to.params.type != from.params.type) 
  ) {
    return;
  }

  if (to.path.indexOf("/catalog/") !== -1 && savedPosition != null) {
    return { x: 0, y: savedPosition.y };
  }

  return { x: 0, y: 0 };
}

How do I prevent the page from scrolling to the top before changing the route?

Answer 1

So, you do want:

• click the link
• Start rendering page
• Scroll to top

From the documentation of Vue router, you can use code like this

/app/router.scrollBehavior.js

export default function () {
  return { x: 0, y: 0, behavior: 'smooth' }
}

You can also use conditions or setTimeout to achieve

export default function (to, from, savedPosition) {
  if (to.path === '/my-cool-path') {
    return { x: 0, y: 0, behavior: 'smooth' }
  }
}

export default function (to, from, savedPosition) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve({ x: 0, y: 0, behavior: 'smooth' })
    }, 2000)
  })
}

This answerusing vue-scrollto may also help.

The final option is to use some transition effects to hide the ugly shaking/loading, which can actually be very attractive.