An implementation of client side routing using the client-side router library secretary and om.next/set-query!. Note: this solution may become outdated when Routing-Hooks is made available. Further reading on Om Next routing, see: Routing-Support.
Also take a look first at: Routing in Om Next — a Catalog of Approaches, which describes Om Next routing variants without third party client-side router libraries. (In fact this catalog of approaches obsoletes my article so you might as well stop reading and go the the above link directly.)
GitHub
The code for this example is on GitHub.
Implementation
(excuse my Clojure –rookie)
ns yourproject.app
(:require [om.next :as om :refer-macros [defui]]
(:as dom]
[om.dom :as secretary]
[secretary.core
:as s]
[clojure.string :as util]
[yourproject.util
:refer [reconciler]]
[yourproject.reconciler :as app-parser]
[yourproject.parsers.app
:refer [Navbar navbar]]
[yourproject.navbar :refer [HomePage home-page]]
[yourproject.pages.home :refer [BrowsePage browse-page]]
[yourproject.pages.browse :refer [AboutPage about-page]]))
[yourproject.pages.about
;;-----------
;; Constants.
def pages
("Information on pages. Update this when new pages are added. Also
update the routes in the routing namespace. Beware: (a) keywords
*must* start with the :page+ prefix. (b) the URL /home is an alias
for / (under the hood) so don't define a /home entry."
"/" [:page+home
{
(om/get-query HomePage)
home-page]"/browse" [:page+browse
(om/get-query BrowsePage)
browse-page]"/about" [:page+about
(om/get-query AboutPage)
about-page]})
;;---------
;; Queries.
def app-query
("Application level query."
:app [:logged-in?]})
{
def navbar-query
("Navbar query"
:navbar (om/get-query Navbar)})
{
defn page-query
("Gets query by page keyword and page subquery."
[kw sq]
{kw sq})
defn query-by-page
("Gets query by page."
[page]:pre [(not (nil? page))]
{:post [(not (nil? %))]}
if (contains? pages page)
(let [pi (get pages page)]
(
[app-query
navbar-queryfirst pi) (second pi))])
(page-query (;; Forces post-assert fail.
nil))
defn page-info-by-props
("Gets pages element for query via props."
[props]:pre [(not (nil? props))]
{:post [(not (nil? %))]}
let [kw (first (filter #(s/starts-with? (str %) ":page+")
(keys props)))]
(if (not (nil? kw))
(;; Here kw has a :page+ type keyword.
let [kws (str kw)
(str "/" (subs kws 6))
pg (if (= pg "/home") "/" pg)]
pgi (get pages pgi))
(;; Forces post-assert fail.
nil)))
defn keyword-by-props
("Gets keyword for query via props."
[props]:pre [(not (nil? props))]
{:post [(not (nil? %))]}
let [pi (page-info-by-props props)]
(if (not (nil? pi))
(first pi)
(;; Forces post-assert fail.
nil)))
defn factory-fcn-by-props
("Gets factory function for query via props."
[props]:pre [(not (nil? props))]
{:post [(not (nil? %))]}
let [pi (page-info-by-props props)]
(if (not (nil? pi))
(second (next pi))
(;; forces post-assert fail
nil)))
;;------------------------
;; Om-next root component.
;;
(defui App
static om/IQuery
(query [this]"/"))
(query-by-page
Object
(render [this]
let [props (om/props this)
(:app props)
app-props (:keys [logged-in?]} app-props
{
:navbar props)
navbar-props (
pkw (keyword-by-props props)
page-props (pkw props)]
nil
(dom/div nil (str "*** "(if logged-in? "LOGGED IN" "LOGGED OUT") "***"))
(dom/h4
(navbar navbar-props)
((factory-fcn-by-props props) page-props)))))
;;-----------------
;; Sets page.
;;
defn set-page!
("Sets page via an Om Next set-query call. The resulting re-render of
App displays the new page."
[page]:pre [(not (nil? page))]}
{
let [root (om/app-root reconciler)]
(when (and (not (nil? page))
(not (nil? root)))
(let [q (query-by-page page)]
(root
(om/set-query! :query q}))))) {