, event) {}
```
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### Author:  [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2023, 9:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-use-routeaction-in-glimmer-single-file-components/288936/3 "2023-12-17T09:52:24Z")
Thank you @Arkshine! I think I understand how to pass actions in a glimmer component in general. However the `route-action` helper moved along the route hierarchy to invoke an action that is not declared in local scope. So you could just declare it on the component, e.g.:
```plaintext
{{route-action "showLogin"}}
{{route-action "showCreateAccount"}}
{{route-action "composePrivateMessage"}}
```
I could just work on the template, care less about the invoked logic because it’s auto-magically passed in (from my point of view :). Which I liked, but I don’t understand if that was ever best practice and if/how I would have access to that now in a glimmer component.
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### Author:  [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-use-routeaction-in-glimmer-single-file-components/288936/4 "2023-12-17T13:44:25Z")
You’re right; my bad. 😔 I answered automatically without much thought. (well, It was 5 am 😄).
I don’t have the answer to your question right now, but I’ll get back to you If I figure out something on my side!
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### Author:  [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-use-routeaction-in-glimmer-single-file-components/288936/5 "2023-12-17T14:39:57Z")
From my test, the following works.
```js
import { get } from "@ember/object";
import { routeAction } from 'discourse/helpers/route-action';
{{on "click" (routeAction "showLogin" (get this "router._router"))}}
```
It assumes you have the `router` service defined in the component.
I’m unsure whether it’s considered bad practice. It doesn’t sound like a good idea, but it works. 😄
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### Author:  [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-use-routeaction-in-glimmer-single-file-components/288936/6 "2023-12-18T12:51:20Z")
Thanks again! I agree it looks a bit hacky 😄 Though it also doesn’t work for me.. trying to replace the action in [discourse-featured-lists/javascripts/discourse/components/featured-list.gjs at main · nolosb/discourse-featured-lists · GitHub](https://github.com/nolosb/discourse-featured-lists/blob/main/javascripts/discourse/components/featured-list.gjs)
Well, I might just drop it for now, the component works fine as it is. Just trying to understand a bit better how some of the stuff works under the hood 🧑🏽🔧
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-use-routeaction-in-glimmer-single-file-components/288936/7 "2023-12-18T13:02:18Z")
> [@Arkshine](#):
>
> `import { routeAction } from 'discourse/helpers/route-action';`
>
> It assumes you have the `router` service defined in the component.
I think if you use the default export, it should work as expected (i.e. without needing to inject the router service, or manually pass in a reference to it)
```js
import routeAction from "discourse/helpers/route-action";
```
(not sure why there is also an internal function exported as `routeAction`… pretty confusing! [Let’s fix that](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/24946))
Although I would say… in general we are trying to move towards ‘closure actions’ like `{{on "click" this.someFunction}}` rather than string-based things like `{{action "blah"}}` or `{{routeAction "blah"}}`.