restore scroll position on initial navigation

In the past, when navigating back from an external or dead page
to a live page, the scroll position would not be restored.

assets/js/phoenix_live_view/live_socket.js

@@ -362,7 +362,11 @@ export default class LiveSocket {
       view.setHref(this.getHref())
       view.joinDead()
       if(!this.main){ this.main = view }
-      window.requestAnimationFrame(() => view.execNewMounted())
+      window.requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+        view.execNewMounted()
+        // restore scroll position when navigating from an external / non-live page
+        this.maybeScroll(history.state?.scroll)
+      })
     }
   }
 

test/e2e/support/navigation.ex

@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ defmodule Phoenix.LiveViewTest.E2E.Navigation.Layout do
         <.link navigate="/stream" style="background-color: #f1f5f9; padding: 0.5rem;">
           LiveView (other session)
         </.link>
+
+        <.link navigate="/navigation/dead" style="background-color: #f1f5f9; padding: 0.5rem;">
+          Dead View
+        </.link>
       </div>
 
       <div style="margin-left: 22rem; flex: 1; padding: 2rem;">
@@ -165,3 +169,25 @@ defmodule Phoenix.LiveViewTest.E2E.Navigation.BLive do
     """
   end
 end
+
+defmodule Phoenix.LiveViewTest.E2E.Navigation.Dead do
+  use Phoenix.Controller, formats: [:html], layouts: [html: {Phoenix.LiveViewTest.E2E.Navigation.Layout, :live}]
+  import Phoenix.Component, only: [sigil_H: 2]
+
+  def index(conn, _params) do
+    assigns = %{}
+
+    conn
+    |> render(:index)
+  end
+end
+
+defmodule Phoenix.LiveViewTest.E2E.Navigation.DeadHTML do
+  use Phoenix.Component
+
+  def index(assigns) do
+    ~H"""
+    <h1>Dead view</h1>
+    """
+  end
+end

test/e2e/test_helper.exs

@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ defmodule Phoenix.LiveViewTest.E2E.Router do
       live "/a", Phoenix.LiveViewTest.E2E.Navigation.ALive
       live "/b", Phoenix.LiveViewTest.E2E.Navigation.BLive, :index
       live "/b/:id", Phoenix.LiveViewTest.E2E.Navigation.BLive, :show
+      get "/dead", Phoenix.LiveViewTest.E2E.Navigation.Dead, :index
     end
   end
 

test/e2e/tests/navigation.spec.js

@@ -226,6 +226,33 @@ test("scrolls hash el into view after live navigation (issue #3452)", async ({pa
   expect(scrollTop).toBeLessThanOrEqual(offset + 500)
 })
 
+test("restores scroll position when navigating from dead view", async ({page}) => {
+  await page.goto("/navigation/b")
+  await syncLV(page)
+
+  await expect(page.locator("#items")).toContainText("Item 42")
+
+  expect(await page.evaluate(() => document.documentElement.scrollTop)).toEqual(0)
+  const offset = (await page.locator("#items-item-42").evaluate((el) => el.offsetTop)) - 200
+  await page.evaluate((offset) => window.scrollTo(0, offset), offset)
+  // LiveView only updates the scroll position every 100ms
+  await page.waitForTimeout(150)
+
+  await page.getByRole("link", {name: "Dead"}).click()
+  await page.waitForURL("/navigation/dead")
+
+  await page.goBack()
+  await syncLV(page)
+
+  // scroll position is restored
+  await expect.poll(
+    async () => {
+      return await page.evaluate(() => document.documentElement.scrollTop)
+    },
+    {message: "scrollTop not restored", timeout: 5000}
+  ).toBe(offset)
+})
+
 test("navigating all the way back works without remounting (only patching)", async ({page}) => {
   await page.goto("/navigation/a")
   await syncLV(page)