vue-router redirect not working on route push

Question

I have the following router configured:

const router = new Router({
  mode: 'history',

  routes: [
    // root
    {
      path: '/',
      component: ComponentPage,
      redirect: routePrefix.public,
      children: [

        // public
        {
          path: routePrefix.public,
          component: ComponentPage,
          redirect: `${routePrefix.public}/login`,
          children: [
            {
              path: `${routePrefix.public}/login`, component: LoginPage,
            }],
        },

        // private
        {
          path: routePrefix.private,
          component: ComponentPage,
          children: [
            {
              path: `${routePrefix.private}/u`, component: PrivatePage,
            }],
        }],
    }],
});

now as you can see, there are two main parts; a public, and a private one. Additionally I have the following navigation guard configured for authorization:

router.beforeEach((to, from, next) => {
  console.log(`registered request to redirect from 
    '${from.fullPath}' to '${to.fullPath}'`);

  if (to.fullPath.startsWith(routePrefix.private) &&
    !Store.getters['auth/isAuthenticated']) {
    console.log('-> reroute to public main');
    next(routePrefix.public);
  } else if (to.fullPath.startsWith(routePrefix.public) &&
    Store.getters['auth/isAuthenticated']) {
    console.log('-> reroute to private main');
    next(routePrefix.private);
  } else {
    next();
  }
});

If you're wondering what the route prefix look like, here you go:

const routePrefix = {
  public: '/p', private: '/x',
};

Nothing so special.

The problem

I open the page localhost:8080/ which redirects / to /p/login as expected. After a successful login, I perform a Router.push('/') with the intention to further re-route the user once again.

The idea is that / should get redirect to /p/login again, where the navigation guard kicks in and redirects it to /x/ ... But it doesn't. It stays on / .

Isn't it supposed to redirect it away from the main page? How can I fix it?

Answer 1

I didn't find a solution to this problem. I've reached my goal by pushing to the desired destination directly instead of letting the rerouting do its magic. This works.