2.0 doesn't respect target="_blank" attr

[hogart]

Following code doesn't open new tab/window:

router-link("v-bind:to"="{name: 'play', params: {ifid: ifid}}", target="_blank") Play (new tab)

I'm upgrading my app from 1.x where appropriate equivalent of this code worked. Here's repro pen: http://codepen.io/hogart/pen/ZpPGXY?editors=1010

[fnlctrl]

It's no longer supported, please use <a> tags instead.

[hogart]

Manually creating links is error prone and can't be really considered solution — аlas, router instance doesn't provide method for reverse url resolving.

I understand that this is quite rare use case, but this is obvious regression and as such should be at least mentioned in upgrade guide.

[fnlctrl]

аlas, router instance doesn't provide method for reverse url resolving.

It has.. though it's not documented (since it's very unlikely that someone needs it):
router.match(), you can put whatever in router-link's to prop to it, e.g. router.match({name:'foo'})
and to get the url, use router.match({name:'foo'}).fullPath

I understand that this is quite rare use case, but this is obvious regression and as such should be at least mentioned in upgrade guide.

Sorry about that, just created a PR to fix this: https://github.com/vuejs/vuejs.org/pull/539/files

[hogart]

Yeah, I already dug out this method, although it's not full equivalent of what's happening in router-link render function. Can I rely upon it in a sense it get's documented some time and won't disappear?

[fnlctrl]

although it's not full equivalent of what's happening in router-link render function.

Yeah, it doesn't handle base.. https://github.com/vuejs/vue-router/blob/dev/src/components/link.js#L30-L33

Can I rely upon it in a sense it get's documented some time and won't disappear?

It's unlikely to be documented, and I can't guarantee its consistence... Please use at your own risk.

[posva]

@fnlctrl Couldn't we implement this with window.open and provide a target prop?

[fnlctrl]

@posva Evan fixed this for 0.7 (c955be3), but I don't know if he intentionally removed this in 2.0. It would be easy to support though.

[posva]

@fnlctrl I think we should 😄
Let's talk about this on slack

[hogart]

@fnlctrl while target="_blank" is indeed corner case, reverse url resolve can be useful in other cases. Imagine we're building isomorphic app and we need to email user some link. Or we doing something like google drive or bit.ly and we need to provide links in text form to copy them.

[fnlctrl]

Well for the "target=_blank" issue I've created a PR: #830
@hogart As for the reverse url resolve, would you mind opening a new issue for discussion?