vue-router — Uncaught (in promise) Error: Redirected from "/login" to "/" via a navigation guard

Question

Why is vue-router giving me this error? To be clear, the login flow works as intended but I want to a) get rid of the errro and b) understand why the error is happening.

Error:

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Redirected from "/login" to "/" via a navigation guard.

Login flow

1. start logged out, but enter a URL that requires auth (i.e. anything besides "/login")
2. get redirected to "/login" (as expected).
3. login
4. successfully get redirected to starting Url from step #1, except with the above error.

Login action:

doLogin({ commit }, loginData) {
  commit("loginStart");
  axiosClient
    .post("/jwt-auth/v1/token", {
      username: loginData.username,
      password: loginData.password,
    })
    .then((response) => {
      commit("loginStop", null);
      commit("setUserData", response.data);
      this.categories = airtableQuery.getTable("Categories");
      commit("setCategories", this.categories);
      this.locations = airtableQuery.getTable("Locations");
      commit("setLocations", this.locations);
      router.push("/"); // push to site root after authentication
    })
    .catch((error) => {
      console.log(error.response.data.message);
      commit("loginStop", error.response.data.message);
      commit("delUserData");
    });
},

Router:

const routes = [
  {
    path: "/login",
    name: "Login",
    component: Login,
    meta: { requiresAuth: false },
  },
  {
    path: "/",
    name: "Home",
    component: Home,
    meta: { requiresAuth: true },
  },
];

let entryUrl = null;
router.beforeEach((to, from, next) => {
  let localStorageUserData = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("userData"));
  let storeUserData = state.getters.getUserData;
  let userData = localStorageUserData || storeUserData;
  let isAuthenticated = userData.token !== "" && userData.token !== undefined;
  if (to.matched.some((record) => record.meta.requiresAuth)) {
    if (!isAuthenticated) {
      if (to.name !== "Login" && to.name !== "Home") {
        entryUrl = to.fullPath;
      }
      next({ name: "Login" });
    } else if (entryUrl) {
      let url = entryUrl;
      entryUrl = null;
      next(url);
    } else {
      next();
    }
  } else {
    next();
  }
});

Answer 1

The error message is getting updated in the next version of vue-router. The error will read:

Redirected when going from "/login" to "/" via a navigation guard

Somewhere in your code, after being redirected to "/login", you are redirecting back to "/". And vue-router is complaining about. You'll want to make sure you only have one redirect per navigation action.