I have vue app which is also PWA. The PWA works just fine as intended but the problem is that I am using the generic paths for my web app. That means to open the correct page I am using the path /test/${user} . That means when user installs app he is automatically redirected to start path "website.com" not "website.com/test/uniqueid". So my question is - is it possible to set up start_url when user installs the PWA so when he launches the app it redirects him straight to "website.com/test/uniqueid"
I don't know if it is going to help for someone else but I found this hacky solution which works but it has some of its flaws - for example if the user deletes his localstorage.
I added an event listener for 'appinstalled' basically checking when user installs the PWA and when he does I setup localStorage variable
window.addEventListener("appinstalled", () => {
localStorage["istallURL"] = window.location.pathname;
});
After that (In my case) in router.js inside root path I am checking if this localStorage value exists if it does I redirect user to saved path from localhost variable
{
path: "/",
name: "redirect",
beforeEnter: (to, from, next) => {
const installedFrom = localStorage["installURL"];
if (installedFrom) {
window.location.replace(installURL);
} else {
window.location.href = "https://youtube.com/";
}
next();
},
}
Should be easy to adapt it for other frameworks or non framework app, do the same thing before mounting your application :)