Flash message re-appears on page navigation

[iamniels]

When a flash message is closed by the user, it will re-appear when the user navigates back to the page.

How to reproduce:

• Enter a form & submit
• You will be navigated to a page with a success flash message
• Close the flash message
• Navigate back to the form and then navigate forward to the page again
• The flash message is displayed again

Especially when flash messages appear with some animation, this is troublesome, because to the user it appears that the message is a result to something he just did.

[iamniels]

Any ideas for an approach?

One idea is to add unique identifiers to the messages and to store in the browser's local storage whether a message has been displayed already or not. But this seems overly complicated to me.

[reinink]

This is expected behaviour with Inertia.js. The flash message is sent from the server as a prop, and props are saved in history. This is desirable, and follows standard browser behaviour, where navigating through history shows the page exactly as it was when navigated away from.