The routes created with the default reagent template look like this:
;; -------------------------
;; Routes
(def router
(reitit/router
[["/" :index]
["/items"
["" :items]
["/:item-id" :item]]
["/about" :about]]))
If I change the path of one ("/about" to "/test" below), why does it no longer work? There must be something else driving the routing, but I can't seem to figure out what.
;; -------------------------
;; Routes
(def router
(reitit/router
[["/" :index]
["/items"
["" :items]
["/:item-id" :item]]
["/test" :about]]))
This is the default reagent template (lein new reagent...) and I haven't changed anything else in the code. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit - Some additional detail I poked around in the repl a little bit in this function (from the default template):
(defn init! []
(clerk/initialize!)
(accountant/configure-navigation!
{:nav-handler
(fn [path]
(let [match (reitit/match-by-path router path)
current-page (:name (:data match))
route-params (:path-params match)]
(reagent/after-render clerk/after-render!)
(session/put! :route {:current-page (page-for current-page)
:route-params route-params})
(clerk/navigate-page! path)
))
:path-exists?
(fn [path]
(boolean (reitit/match-by-path router path)))})
(accountant/dispatch-current!)
(mount-root))
Everything looks ok to me. In fact, executing the below steps in the repl successfully navigated the browser to the correct page. I still can't enter the URL directly though.
app:problem.core=> (require '[reitit.frontend :as reitit])
nil
app:problem.core=> (reitit/match-by-path router "/test")
{:template "/test",
:data {:name :about},
:result nil,
:path-params {},
:path "/test",
:query-params {},
:parameters {:path {}, :query {}}}
app:problem.core=> (def match (reitit/match-by-path router "/test"))
#'problem.core/match
app:problem.core=> (:name (:data match))
:about
app:problem.core=> (:path-params match)
{}
app:problem.core=> (def current-page (:name (:data match)))
#'problem.core/current-page
app:problem.core=> (page-for current-page)
#'problem.core/about-page
app:problem.core=> (session/put! :route {:current-page (page-for current-page) :route-params {}})
{:route {:current-page #'problem.core/about-page, :route-params {}}}
app:problem.core=>

It looks like you changed the routes on client-side, in
src/cljs/<project_name>/core.cljs, but did not change them server side insrc/clj/<project_name>/handler.clj(look under thedef appnear the bottom of the file).If your new to developing web applications with Clojure, I'd recommend looking at Luminus, rather than using the Reagent template. It's a much more batteries included-approach, with a lot more documentation. The book "Web Development With Clojure" is written by the same author (who is also a contributor to Reagent), and is also recommended reading.