Is the `isPending` flag from `useTransition` supposed to update when changing routes with next/link?

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Essentially what the subject says.  I'm working on moving from pages router to app router and am trying to find a way to do the same thing that routeChangeStart and routeChangeComplete gave us.  Mainly for analytics but a few other things like memory cleanup / etc.  From what I understood from the docs I should use the useTransition hook but the isPending flag is always false.  Is there something I'm missing or is that not the expected functionality?

Little yellow ant · Answer

I've read that the preferred solution is to create a custom wrapper for the next/link component but that seems like a band aid when we used to have the router events.  Maybe that is the way it has to be but I'm hoping there is something more global

Is the `isPending` flag from `useTransition` supposed to update when changing routes with next/link?

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