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FrogUI

Browser Redirects

By design, when using the .frame API, Frog only renders the HTML <head> and <meta> tags to construct a frame. It does not render a full HTML document to optimize on frame load performance.

This means that when the user navigates to your Frame URL via the browser, the browser will render a blank page.

If you want to render a full HTML document for a Frame, you can use the browserLocation property to redirect the user to a new URL that contains the document.

For instance, a user may reach the frame page in their browser by clicking on the link beneath the frame on Warpcast. We may want to redirect them to a different page (ie. a mint page, etc) using browserLocation when they arrive via their browser.

Examples

Basic (Frog Instance)

In the example below, when a user navigates to the /frame path of the website via their web browser, they will be redirected to the / path as browserLocation is set on the Frog instance.

import { Button, Frog } from 'frog'
 
export const app = new Frog({
  browserLocation: '/'
})
 
app.frame('/frame', (c) => {
  return c.res({/* ... */})
})

Basic (Return Property)

In the example below, when a user navigates to the /frame path of the website via their web browser, they will be redirected to the / path as browserLocation is set on the return object.

import { Button, Frog } from 'frog'
 
export const app = new Frog()
 
app.frame('/frame', (c) => {
  return c.res({
    browserLocation: '/'
    /* ... */
  })
})

Path Interpolation

We may want to redirect the user to a page based on the path.

In the example below, when a user navigates to the /frame/:foo/:bar (e.g. /frame/a/b) path of the website via their web browser, they will be redirected to the /:foo/:bar path (e.g. /a/b), provided that the browserLocation and the route share the same template variables (e.g. :foo and :bar).

import { Button, Frog } from 'frog'
 
export const app = new Frog({
  browserLocation: '/:foo/:bar'
})
 
app.frame('/frame/:foo/:bar', (c) => {
  return c.res({/* ... */})
})

With Base Paths

browserLocation also works with basePath on the Frog instance.

In the example below, when a user navigates to the /api/foo path of the website via their web browser, they will be redirected to the /foo path.

import { Button, Frog } from 'frog'
 
export const app = new Frog({
  basePath: '/api',
  browserLocation: '/:path',
})
 
app.frame('/foo', (c) => {
  return c.res({/* ... */})
})
 
app.frame('/bar', (c) => {
  return c.res({/* ... */})
})

To include the basePath in the browserLocation path, you can use the :basePath template variable.

In the example below, when a user navigates to the /api/foo path of the website via their web browser, they will be redirected to the /api/foo/dev path.

import { Button, Frog } from 'frog'
 
export const app = new Frog({
  basePath: '/api',
  browserLocation: '/:basePath/:path/dev',
})
 
app.frame('/foo', (c) => {
  return c.res({/* ... */})
})
 
app.frame('/bar', (c) => {
  return c.res({/* ... */})
})