Navigate Across Your Apps with Page References | Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide

Basic Navigation
The pageReference JavaScript object represents a URL for a page. You can use a pageReference instead of parsing or creating a URL directly. This approach helps you avoid broken navigation if Salesforce changes URL formats in the future.

Add Links to Lightning Pages from Your Custom Components
To link to Lightning Experience pages, use lightning:formattedUrl in your custom component. The lightning:formattedUrl component displays a URL as a hyperlink.

Add Query Parameters
To add query parameters to the URL, update the PageReference state property. The key-value pairs of the state property are serialized to URL query parameters. The query parameters describe the page and form a more specific URL that the user can save or bookmark.

Navigate to a Record Create Page with Default Field Values
The lightning:pageReferenceUtils component provides utilities for encoding default field values into a string. Pass this string into the pageReference.state.defaultFieldValues attribute on standard__objectPage page reference types.

Navigate to a Web Page
The navigation service supports different kinds of pages in Lightning. Each page reference type supports a different set of attributes and state properties.

Migrate to lightning:isUrlAddressable from from force:navigateToComponent
The pageReference JavaScript object represents a URL for a page. You can use a pageReference instead of parsing or creating a URL directly. This approach helps you avoid broken navigation if Salesforce changes URL formats in the future.

pageReference Types
To navigate in Lightning Experience, Experience Builder sites, or the Salesforce mobile app, define a PageReference object. The pageReference type generates a unique URL format and defines attributes that apply to all pages of that type. For Experience Builder sites, depending on the page type, the pageReference property requirements can differ between LWR sites and Aura sites.