Next/Link not loading fixed path routes?

[mathewtrivett]

Hi I was wondering if someone could give a bit of help?

We're using Next and Next/Link for a headless Wordpress site.

Some pages are dynamic, routed from the pages directory. Others used a fixed route type page. See an example directory structure below:

pages/
    news/
       overview.jsx
       [slug].jsx

Imagine we a menu with links that look like this:

<Link href=`/news/overview` />
<Link href={`/news/${item.slug}`} />

If I'm on the /news/a-slug page, when I click on /news/overview it pushes that URL into browser history but doesn't actually navigate me there. Am I doing something wrong here?

Can you use Next/Link for pages that don't have a dynamic component?

[jamesmosier]

The example you outlined should work. I tested it and when I am on the news/[slug] page and click a <Link> to go to news/overview it navigates fully and shows the "overview" content.

Do you happen to have a repository you could share?

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Also the link for <Link href={`/news/${item.slug}`}> should be <Link href="/news/[slug]" as={`/news/${item.slug}`}> since it is a dynamic route.

Although if you install next@canary then <Link href={`/news/${item.slug}`}> works as it is written 😄