ISR: is navigating between pages isn't considered a new request?

[pranavmalvawala]

What version of Next.js are you using?

11.0.1

What version of Node.js are you using?

14.17.0

What browser are you using?

Chrome

What operating system are you using?

Windows

How are you deploying your application?

Vercel

Describe the Bug

I have an app with ISR and it appears simply navigating to a page (multiple times) is not enough to view updates. I have to actually land on that url or refresh the page. It feels navigating is not enough to even trigger ISR. So can I know is this the ideal / expected behavior? or are there any chances for including this in future?

Expected Behavior

I think it can be over demanding to ask but I expect the page to revalidate on navigating to the page and also have it be in an updated state in case the user accesses the same page again after revalidation time has passed and regeneration is finished.

To Reproduce

1. Have 2 pages with ISR (data must change for both pages) and a link to navigate between them
2. Change data for both pages
3. Navigate between pages and check if ISR gets triggered
4. wait for time > revalidate time and then hit refresh (ISR must have triggered just now so pages must still have stale data, check both pages using navigation)
5. ISR was triggered in last step so a refresh again should do the trick and new data can be filled in pages.

I was under the impression navigating to a page would trigger ISR for it and later on when I go back to that page again, it would have latest data. The confusion began for me with word "request" in doc.

[ijjk]

Hi, yes this is the expected behavior for ISR, we prefetch the data for the pages and leverage this in memory cache during navigations to provide the fastest transitions we can. We do not cache getServerSideProps data for transitions though as this data is expected to change often.

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