Need guidance on how Views are destroyed

[Sam]

I noticed that template-based Views are not destroyed as Router is navigating through them - they are simply taken out of the DOM. Sometimes this might be desired behavior, but not always. What is the recommended approach for destroying views, when Router is navigation out of them? This also would require complete disconnect from any subscriptions to ViewModel if they are kept in memory.

 Thanks,

 Sam

[Petyo]

Hello,

you can use the destroy method for that.

Regards,
Petyo
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[Sam]

This means I have to keep track of them manually and also catch the navigation back. Is there any provision to instruct Router do that? Otherwise these pages will simply accumulate in memory.

[Petyo]

Hi,

the router and the view components are not coupled - there is no automatic view instance management. If you are looking for such sort of SPA feature, then you may consider a "higher level" SPA toolkit, like AngularJS. 

Regards,
Petyo
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