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Feature request: persist route (don't unmount when navigate out)

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by tracing how and mount and clean up elements, then compare that lifecycle with the PersistRoute example in the issue. Determine how a persist prop should behave across navigation, including first visit and later revisits, and add coverage for the expected lifecycle before considering the feature done.

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Description

enhancement
Describe the bug

Not a bug, but no templates for feature requests.

I want to be able to avoid rerendering a previously visited route and the route should keep all the internal state.

"persist?: boolean" prop would be nice
Syntax proposal:

<Routes><Route path="/" persist element={...} /> </Routes>

The way I accomplish it right now:

        <Routes>
          <Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
          <Route path="/stack" />
          ...
        </Routes>
        <PersistRoute path="/stack" component={StackTest} />


export const PersistRoute = (p: { path: string; component: FC }) => {
  const match = useMatch(() => p.path)

  let dispose: () => void | undefined
  const render = once(() => {
    return createRoot(_dispose => {
      dispose = _dispose
      return <p.component />
    })
  })

  onCleanup(() => dispose?.())

  return <Show when={match()}>{render()}</Show>
}
Your Example Website or App

https://github.com/solidjs/solid-router

Steps to Reproduce the Bug or Issue

None

Expected behavior

When has "persist" prop it should mount the component on first visit and not cleanup on navigate out

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Platform

all

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