Is there a way to dismiss the ShellRoute modal programmatically?

[bqubique]

I use GoRouter with ShellRoute's as described in the examples. Inside the modal navigation I want to pop the whole modal sheets (the whole ShellRoute including sub-routes).
When creating the NavigationSheet I also tried looking into SheetController class, but it does not have any method to dismiss the page manually.
This would be useful with a close button on any sheet.

Right now I've come up with this solution:

Navigator.of(context).popUntil((route) => route.isFirst);
Navigator.of(context).pop();

Which looks like an antipattern to using GoRouter solely.
What can be done in this case?

[fujidaiti]

In go_router (and Navigator 2.0), you can go anywhere you want just by specifying the path to the location like in a website. For example, say we have the 3 pages; /: the home, /a: the first page of the shell route, which is stacked on top of the home (like the NavigationSheet in your case), and /a/b: the second page of the shell route. Then, if you want to return to home from /a/b, simply call context.go('/').

Adding the following app bar to any page in the NavigationSheet of the AI playlist generator example could be a good example of this mechanism.

appbar: AppBar(
  actions: [
    IconButton(
      // Returns to the home from any page in the sheet
      onPressed: () => context.go('/'),
      icon: const Icon(Icons.close),
    ),
  ],
),

[bqubique]

True, but what if the same route is being called in other routes as well?
What if two different routes push this ShellRoute/Modal? How would I know where to go (besides passing a flag when calling this sheet)?

[fujidaiti]

Right now I've come up with this solution:

Navigator.of(context).popUntil((route) => route.isFirst);
Navigator.of(context).pop();

Then I think this is the only solution as far as I understand it.
If go_router package has an API to obtain the current location (e.g. /a/b/c), we might be able to extract the destination to go to, from the current location using RegExp or something.