[javascript] Can vue-router open a link in a new tab?

I have a summary page and a detail subpage. All of the routes are implemented with vue-router (v 0.7.x) using programmatic navigation like this:

this.$router.go({ path: "/link/to/page" })

However, when I route from the summary page to the subpage, I need to open the subpage in a new tab just as one would by adding _target="blank" to an <a> tag.

Is there a way to do this?

The simplest way of doing this using an anchor tag would be this:

<a :href="$router.resolve({name: 'posts.show', params: {post: post.id}}).href" target="_blank">
    Open Post in new tab
</a>

If you are interested ONLY on relative paths like: /dashboard, /about etc, See other answers.

If you want to open an absolute path like: https://www.google.com to a new tab, you have to know that Vue Router is NOT meant to handle those.

However, they seems to consider that as a feature-request. #1280. But until they do that,

Here is a little trick you can do to handle external links with vue-router.

• Go to the router configuration (probably router.js) and add this code:

/* Vue Router is not meant to handle absolute urls. */
/* So whenever we want to deal with those, we can use this.$router.absUrl(url) */
Router.prototype.absUrl = function(url, newTab = true) {
  const link = document.createElement('a')
  link.href = url
  link.target = newTab ? '_blank' : ''
  if (newTab) link.rel = 'noopener noreferrer' // IMPORTANT to add this
  link.click()
}

Now, whenever we deal with absolute URLs we have a solution. For example to open google to a new tab

this.$router.absUrl('https://www.google.com)

Remember that whenever we open another page to a new tab we MUST use noopener noreferrer.

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Somewhere in your project, typically main.js or router.js

import Router from 'vue-router'

Router.prototype.open = function (routeObject) {
  const {href} = this.resolve(routeObject)
  window.open(href, '_blank')
}

In your component:

<div @click="$router.open({name: 'User', params: {ID: 123}})">Open in new tab</div>

In case that you define your route like the one asked in the question (path: '/link/to/page'):

import Vue from 'vue'
import Router from 'vue-router'
import MyComponent from '@/components/MyComponent.vue';

Vue.use(Router)

export default new Router({
  routes: [
    {
      path: '/link/to/page',
      component: MyComponent
    }
  ]
})

You can resolve the URL in your summary page and open your sub page as below:

<script>
export default {
  methods: {
    popup() {
      let route = this.$router.resolve({path: '/link/to/page'});
      // let route = this.$router.resolve('/link/to/page'); // This also works.
      window.open(route.href, '_blank');
    }
  }
};
</script>

Of course if you've given your route a name, you can resolve the URL by name:

routes: [
  {
    path: '/link/to/page',
    component: MyComponent,
    name: 'subPage'
  }
]

...

let route = this.$router.resolve({name: 'subPage'});

References:

• vue-router router.resolve(location, current?, append?)
• vue-router router-link

I think the best way is to simply use:

window.open("yourURL", '_blank');

* flies away *

This worked for me-

let routeData = this.$router.resolve(
{
  path: '/resources/c-m-communities', 
  query: {'dataParameter': 'parameterValue'}
});
window.open(routeData.href, '_blank');

I modified @Rafael_Andrs_Cspedes_Basterio answer

This works for me:

In HTML template: <a target="_blank" :href="url" @click.stop>your_name</a>

In mounted(): this.url = `${window.location.origin}/your_page_name`;

For those who are wondering the answer is no. See related issue on github.

Q: Can vue-router open link in new tab progammaticaly

A: No. use a normal link.

It seems like this is now possible in newer versions (Vue Router 3.0.1):

<router-link :to="{ name: 'fooRoute'}" target="_blank">
  Link Text
</router-link>

Just write this code in your routing file :

{
  name: 'Google',
  path: '/google',
  beforeEnter() {                    
                window.open("http://www.google.com", 
                '_blank');
            }
}