Routing / NavController not redirecting and not giving any error when route is invalid

No, apparently it is a silly mistake on my part.

I was doing this.navController.navigateForward(‘../tab-page2?param=data’).

Then it worked when I changed it to:

this.navController.navigateForward(['../tab-page2'], {
   relativeTo: this.route,
   queryParams: {
      param: 'data',
   },
});