VueRouter not scrolling to anchor tags

Question

I am working on a Vue.js/Laravel8 project on a single page app and can't get VueRouter to get to scroll to the section I want. The page consists of different sections which are reachable if user scrolls down and I want the viewport to scroll to a section similar to how the <a> tag works.

How do I make

<router-link :to="{ name: section1 }">Section1</router-link>

behave like

<a href="#section1">Section1</a>?

I've tried the following:

app.js:

require('./bootstrap')

import Vue from "vue"
import App from "../vue/app"
import router from "./router";

const app = new Vue({
    el: "#app",
    components: { App },
    router
});

router.js:

import Vue from "vue";
import VueRouter from "vue-router";

import Home from "../vue/home";
import Section1 from "../vue/section1";

Vue.use(VueRouter);

export default new VueRouter ({
    mode: "history",
    base: process.env.BASE_URL,
    routes: [
        {path: "/", name: "home"},
        {path: "/section1", name: "section1", component: Section1},
    ],
    scrollBehavior(to, from,  savedPosition) {
        console.log(savedPosition)
        if (savedPosition) {
            return savedPosition;
        } else if (to.hash) {
            return {
                selector: to.hash
            }
        }
    }
});

web.php:

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;


Route::get('/{any}', function () {
    return view('welcome');
})->where('any', '.*');

app.vue:

<template>
  <div class="container">
    <main>
      <home></home>
      <section1></section1>
    </main>
    <router-view></router-view>
  </div>
</template>

navigation.vue:

<template>
  <div class="navbar">
    <router-link :to="{ name: 'section1' }">Section1</router-link>
  </div>
</template>

section1.vue:

<template>
  <section id="section1" class="section1">
    <div class="image"></div>
  </section>
</template>

<router-link> tags are correctly converted into <a> tags in the browser and VueRouter applies following properties to the clicked anchor:

class="router-link-exact-active"

class="router-link-active"

aria-current="page"

But the viewport is not scrolling to the desired section still. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try to use path insted of name and add hash to link:

<router-link :to="{ path: '/section1', hash: '#section1' }">Section1</router-link>