Feature request: usePathname

[philipburleigh]

Hi DevTeam

As I understand, the best practice way of making a component reactive to the current pathname, is through useLocation():

const { pathname } = useLocation()

However, this approach comes with a downside. E.g. when query/search params are updated, the context for useLocation changes, which causes all component consuming useLocation() to rerender. In my case, this is quite annoying, since I only want my components to be reactive to the pathname.

It might be that I have missed a point in the documentation that addresses this issue. If so could you point me in the right direction? Otherwise I would suggest that you create a usePathname hook that is not affected by e.g. changes in query params.

Hope you can help👍

[Luis-Sejer]

We need this badly!

[ngtrthinh169TPC]

related discussion: #9851
tl;dr: there's no good way to do what you want yet, and the devs don't seem like they figured it out either.