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Can I redirect AND update the router context within beforeLoad?

For context:

My server has the following states:

uninitialized

uninitialized

initialized

initialized

In the

beforeLoad

beforeLoad

of the

__root.tsx

__root.tsx

I use TSQuery to get the

serverState

serverState

and inject it into the router context along with the QueryClient.

What I want is to be able to redirect from there depending on the state.

So if

uninitialized

uninitialized

, all paths would reroute to

/initialization

/initialization

(a single page without sub routes). Same for

restarting

restarting

and

disconnected

disconnected

.
If

initialized

initialized

, routing would happen normally with a default redirect to

/home

/home

from the index.

I thought about doing this in the

__root.tsx

__root.tsx

but I can't both update the context via a return AND throw redirects obviously.
I tried updating the context by just setting fields (eg.

context.serverState = serverState

context.serverState = serverState

) but this doesn't work, I get

undefined

undefined

in the

beforeLoad

beforeLoad

s of subsequent routes when using

serverState

serverState

.

I also tried wrapping everything in a

_redirect

_redirect

pathless route which would do the redirects. This works somewhat, but only on legitimate subroutes (so for instance

/fubar

/fubar

would not redirect, it would just show a 404). Also, no redirects on the index route which is a problem.

Any ideas ?
Cheers!

TanStack•10mo ago