Unable to navigate within a useEffect

[hard barn]

I'm in a useEffect and calling navigate() , but nothing happens. I've tried calling navigate() via useNavigate() and redirect().
The strange thing is that when I save a file to kick HMR, then the navigation kicks in.

I am navigating from '/xx/onboarding' to '/x', one level back, in case that has something to do with it.

I am using Tanstack Start and Vite, e.g. already done the devinxi migration. Not sure if this was happening pre-devinxi or not.

My versions:
"@tanstack/react-router": "^1.121.27",
"@tanstack/react-router-devtools": "^1.121.27",
"@tanstack/react-start": "^1.121.32",

[stable terrace]

can you log this before the if statement ?

also, is there no way for you to put that in the route loader instead ?

[hard barn]

Yeah, we're definitely entering the navigate call - I did add logs inside the statement to verify that.

And no, the member is actually streamed in with SSE. When "has_completed_onboarding" changes, we'll navigate.

[stable terrace]

then i would do that check in the SSE handler, not a useEffect

no need for double rerenders

if that member is a global state, that means you're updating it somewhere (ie the SSE handler): do the navigation there

[hard barn]

While I appreciate the suggestion @stable terrace and definitely agree, I wasn't trying to get help with React best practices.
Regardless of where those functions are called in the state we're in, the navigation doesn't take place.

I just noticed a warning now, not sure if that appeared after I updated all our deps.

"Could not find match for from: /$workspace/onboarding"
The user is on /$workspace/onboarding when the navigate() call takes place, and is navigatin to /$workspace.

[hard barn]

I've figured it out. There was an instant navigation back to /$workspace/onboarding so we never saw /$workspace navigated to.

[stable terrace]

glad you worked it out