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How to Navigate within Lightning Components

Updated 4 August 2017

In this blog, we will learn how to navigate within Lightning Components. Let’s get started!

Event Used

We will be using force:navigateToComponent. It allows us to navigate from one component to another. Still, we should keep following points in mind:

  • Through this event we can only navigate to Components.
  • The access of the component should be set to global.
  • It will not work in app.app, the navigation will only work within tab.
  • Also, the URL generated through this event is not permanent, it keeps on changing as we navigate.

Now, let’s get started with the code.

Component 1 :

<aura:component implements="force:appHostable" access="global" >
	<!-- 
        /**
         * Webkul Software.
         *
         * @category  Webkul
         * @author    Webkul
         * @copyright Copyright (c) 2010-2016 Webkul Software Private Limited (https://webkul.com)
         * @license   https://store.webkul.com/license.html
         */
     -->
    <pre>
		Hello! <br/>		 
		This is Component 1<br/>	 
	</pre>	 
	 
	<lightning:button variant="brand" label="Go to Component 2" onclick="{!c.NavigatetoC2}" /> 
</aura:component>

Component 1 controller :

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({
  /**
    * Webkul Software.
    *
    * @category  Webkul
    * @author    Webkul
    * @copyright Copyright (c) 2010-2016 Webkul Software Private Limited (https://webkul.com)
    * @license   https://store.webkul.com/license.html
    */
	NavigatetoC2 : function(component, event, helper) {
		
		console.log('Enter Here');
        var evt = $A.get("e.force:navigateToComponent");
        console.log('evt'+evt);
        evt.setParams({
            componentDef: "c:Component2"
            //componentAttributes :{ }
        });
       
        evt.fire();
	}
})

Controller 2:

<aura:component implements="force:appHostable" access="global" >
	<!-- 
        /**
         * Webkul Software.
         *
         * @category  Webkul
         * @author    Webkul
         * @copyright Copyright (c) 2010-2016 Webkul Software Private Limited (https://webkul.com)
         * @license   https://store.webkul.com/license.html
         */
     -->
    <pre>
		Hello! <br/>		 
		This is Component 2<br/>	 
	</pre>	 
	<lightning:button variant="brand" label="Go to Component 1" onclick="{!c.NavigatetoC1}" />
 
</aura:component>

Component 2 controller :

({
  /**
    * Webkul Software.
    *
    * @category  Webkul
    * @author    Webkul
    * @copyright Copyright (c) 2010-2016 Webkul Software Private Limited (https://webkul.com)
    * @license   https://store.webkul.com/license.html
    */
	NavigatetoC1 : function(component, event, helper) {
		var evt = $A.get("e.force:navigateToComponent");
		evt.setParams({
			componentDef : "c:Component1"
			//componentAttributes: {}
		});
		evt.fire();
	}
})

Output

For output, you have to create a Lightning Tab using one of the components, and add it to an app through App Manager.

Component 1:

Component 2:

Support

That’s all for how to navigate within Lightning Components, still, if you have any issue feel free to add a ticket and let us know your views to make the code better https://webkul.uvdesk.com/en/customer/create-ticket/

 

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