I’ve tried and tried, but go_router and flutter won’t do the obvious.

I just want the back button to go back to the immediately previous route that called .go on the current route.

But to no avail:

GoRouter.of(context).pop()

does whatever it wants. Sometimes it goes back to the immediately previous route, other times it goes back to ‘/’.

I’m using Typed Routes and of course that means that you have to have a / route that goes to basically nothing because it will get called ALWAYS, instead of just when that page is actually routed to.

Here’s what I have for routes:

@TypedGoRoute<HomePageRoute>(path: '/', routes: [
  TypedGoRoute<ErrorPageRoute>(path: 'errors/error'),
  TypedGoRoute<LocationServicesErrorRoute>(path: 'errors/location'),
  TypedGoRoute<LoginPageRoute>(path: 'authentication/login'),
  TypedGoRoute<PasswordPageRoute>(path: 'authentication/password'),
  TypedGoRoute<ForgotPasswordPageRoute>(path: 'authentication/forgotpassword'),
  TypedGoRoute<RegistrationRoute>(path: 'registration'),
  TypedGoRoute<SettingsPageRoute>(path: 'settings'),
  TypedGoRoute<RideHomePageRoute>(path: 'ride'),
  TypedGoRoute<RideNowPageRoute>(path: 'ride/now'),
  TypedGoRoute<RideNowSelectDriverPageRoute>(path: 'ride/now/selectdriver'),
  TypedGoRoute<RideLaterPageRoute>(path: 'ride/later'),
  TypedGoRoute<DriverVerificationStatusPageRoute>(path: 'verification/drivers'),
  TypedGoRoute<StartDrivingPageRoute>(
      path: 'verification/drivers/startdriving'),
  TypedGoRoute<GetVerifiedPageRoute>(path: 'verification/riders'),
])
class HomePageRoute extends GoRouteData {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context, GoRouterState state) {
    return DefaultHomePage(
      key: state.pageKey,
    );
  }
}

Here’s my router:

final router = GoRouter(
  navigatorKey: navigationKey,
  routes: $appRoutes,
}

I use .go(context) on the routes to navigate to the next screen.

If I actually create a hierarchy in those routes (i.e. the authentication section) with the routes:[] list in stuff, then it NEVER just goes back to the previous route, it ALWAYS goes back to the parent.

How do I stop this madness and get go_router to just do what I think is self evident: when you call pop() it goes back to the immediate previous page that called .go(context) to get there?

(Yes I get that dialogs etc. use this too and subvert this, but I’m not talking about dialogs)

Bonus if I can get it to completely collapse the stack somehow and have ONLY the new typed route in the stack too. (i.e. when I call .go(context) on my home route, I want the entire stack to go away and the only thing in it be the homeroute.