javascript - how to listen to page changes in nextjs

Question

I want to reuse a menu I made in react with react-router-dom, but this time in nextjs. The goal is to change the state of the menu to 'false' and the menuName to 'menu' when I click on a link inside the menu.

I use a useEffect function to listen history :

//use effect for page changes
  useEffect(() => {
    //listen for page changes
    history.listen(() => {
      setState({ clicked: false, menuName: "Menu" })
    })
  })

and wrapped my component with withRouter :

import { withRouter } from 'next/router'
[...]
export default withRouter(Header);

Unfortunately, it prints :

TypeError: Cannot read property 'listen' of undefined

Should I better use 'useRouter' to solve this problem? How?

Thank you ;)

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65884505/how-to-listen-to-page-changes-in-nextjs

Answer 1

It worked that way :

Nextjs : Router Events

import { useRouter } from "next/router";

...

const router = useRouter()
  useEffect(() => {
    const handleRouteChange = (url) => {
      console.log(
        `App is changing to ${url}`
      )
      setState({ clicked: false, menuName: "Menu" })
    }

    router.events.on('routeChangeStart', handleRouteChange)

    // If the component is unmounted, unsubscribe
    // from the event with the `off` method:
    return () => {
      router.events.off('routeChangeStart', handleRouteChange)
    }
  }, [])