link modifier

controllers.application\.js

import Controller from '@ember/controller';
import { action } from '@ember/object';

export default class ApplicationController extends Controller {
  appName = 'Ember Twiddle';

  @action
  sayHello() {
    console.log('hellooooooo');
  }
}

modifiers.link\.js

//import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
import Modifier from 'ember-modifier';

export default class TrackClickModifier extends Modifier {
  //@service router;
  
  get link() {
    return this.args.positional[0];
  }
  
  didInstall() {
    const original = this.element;
    const replacement = document.createElement('a');

    // Grab all of the original's attributes, and pass them to the replacement
    for(var i = 0, l = original.attributes.length; i < l; ++i){
      var nodeName  = original.attributes.item(i).nodeName;
      var nodeValue = original.attributes.item(i).nodeValue;

      replacement.setAttribute(nodeName, nodeValue);
    }
    
    // Move children
    replacement.append(...original.childNodes);
    
    // add new
    replacement.setAttribute('href', this.link.url);

    // Switch!
    original.parentNode.replaceChild(replacement, original);
    this.element = replacement;
    
    if (this.link.transitionTo) {
    	this.element.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
        event.preventDefault();
        this.link.transitionTo();
      });
    }
  }
}

router\.js

import EmberRouter from '@ember/routing/router';
import config from './config/environment';

const Router = EmberRouter.extend({
  location: 'none',
  rootURL: config.rootURL
});

Router.map(function() {
  this.route('page-1');
  this.route('page-2');
});

export default Router;

templates.application\.hbs

<h1>Welcome to {{this.appName}}</h1>
<br>
<button {{link (link "page-1")}}>Page 1</button>
<button {{link (link "page-2")}}>Page 2</button>
<br>
{{outlet}}
<br>
<br>

<div {{link (link "page-1")}}>
	This is a block of sth
  <button {{on "click" this.sayHello}}>say hello</button>
</div>
<br>
<button {{on "click" this.sayHello}} {{link (link "page-1")}}>Page 1</button>
<button {{link (link "page-2")}} {{on "click" this.sayHello}}>Page 2</button>

templates.page-1\.hbs

page 1

templates.page-2\.hbs

page 2

twiddle\.json

{
  "version": "0.17.1",
  "EmberENV": {
    "FEATURES": {},
    "_TEMPLATE_ONLY_GLIMMER_COMPONENTS": false,
    "_APPLICATION_TEMPLATE_WRAPPER": true,
    "_JQUERY_INTEGRATION": true
  },
  "options": {
    "use_pods": false,
    "enable-testing": false
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.js",
    "ember": "3.18.1",
    "ember-template-compiler": "3.18.1",
    "ember-testing": "3.18.1"
  },
  "addons": {
    "@glimmer/component": "1.0.0",
    "ember-modifier": "1.0.3",
    "ember-link": "1.1.1"
  }
}