onPageReference doesn't work

Question

I have a custom lwc that navigates to an aura and it's working fine but whenever I change the url parameters the onPageReference method from the aura is not working.

This is my lwc code:

        this[NavigationMixin.Navigate]({ 
            type : 'standard__component' ,
            attributes : {
                componentName : 'c__MyAuraComponent'
            },
            state : {
                c__previousPageReference : //previous page reference,                    
                c__question : //object,
                c__questionId : //id
            }
        });

And this is my aura:

cmp:

<aura:handler name="change" value="{!v.pageReference}" action="{!c.onPageReferenceChange}"/>

controller.js:

onPageReferenceChange: function(component, event, helper) {
    console.log('**reference has changed');
    helper.managePageReference(component);
},

But I'm not being able to get the console log.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Regards,

EDIT My aura also has a onInit handler and both onInit and onPageReferenceChange call the same helper method for data retrieve based on url:

cmp:

<aura:handler name="init" value="{!this}" action="{!c.doInit}" />
<aura:handler name="change" value="{!v.pageReference}" action="{!c.onPageReferenceChange}"/>

controller.js: onPageReferenceChange: function(component, event, helper) { console.log('**reference has changed', component.get("v.pageReference")); helper.managePageReference(component); }, doInit: function (component, event, helper) { helper.managePageReference(component); },

helper.js:

managePageReference: function (component, event) {
    var myPageRef = component.get("v.pageReference");
    if(myPageRef && myPageRef.state){
        Object.keys(myPageRef.state).forEach(key => {
            let fixedKey = key.split('c__').pop();
            component.set("v." + fixedKey, myPageRef.state[key]);
        });
    }
},

Answer 1

Just summarizing the solution if this impacts anyone else.

The simple fix for this is to update the call to the Navigate API to pass the 'replace' argument. This means that the page state is updated without pushing a new history entry onto the browser's history stack.

this[NavigationMixin.Navigate](PageReference, true);

This is loosely detailed in the 'Add Query Parameters' LWC Developer Guide documentation.