Redirects do not work

[NetOpWibby]

Expected behavior

emit("replaceState", "/") redirects a user to the specified URL.

Actual behavior

Nothing happens. Even the official site has this issue.

Steps to reproduce behavior

Put emit("replaceState", "/") inside a route and be sad that you don't get redirected.

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I'm using fastify for the server so I'll try intercepting choo to make redirects happen via fastify instead. I'd rather do it programmatically in choo though.

[NetOpWibby]

This is the way I am doing redirects now: https://github.com/lbryio/lbry.tech/blob/master/app/modules/redirect-404.js

[goto-bus-stop]

Yea this is a problem we've had for a while. You can wrap the emit call inside a setTimeout(() => {}, 0) to work around it for now

[NetOpWibby]

So the first instance of the redirect is here: https://github.com/lbryio/lbry.tech/blob/master/app/views/redirect.js#L51

// relevant portion
if (!fs.existsSync(`./documents/${path}.md`))
  return redirect404(state, emit); // when I add emit here, it does get passed to my redirect-404.js file   

// ...but replacing the HTML in that file with the code below results in nothing
setTimeout(() => {
  emit("replaceState", redirectUrl);
}, 0);