How can catch when user clicked back button in browser and show modal in Angular

Question

I have a problem with handle back button in browser. I have a custom modal(just html/css, no bootstrap), and I want to show this modal when user click back button. If user choose Yes, browser will directly to previous page. When user choose No, the modal will disappear and not directly to another. I tried using candeactive and PlatformLocation, but it seem not work. I can't stop browser directly to previous page when click. Have any solution for this? If yes, please give me an example. Thanks all for help!

This is my code:

article.component.html

<div class="editor-page">
  <div class="container">
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-md-8 offset-md-2">
        <form [formGroup]="articleForm" (ngSubmit)="handleSubmit()">
          <div class="form-group">
            <input type="text" name="title" class="form-control" placeholder="Article Title" formControlName="title">
          </div>
          <div class="form-group">
            <input type="text" name="body" class="form-control" placeholder="What's this article about?" formControlName="body">
          </div>
          <div class="form-group">
            <textarea name="description" class="form-control" id="" cols="30" rows="10" placeholder="Write your article (in markdown)" formControlName="description"></textarea>
          </div>
          <div class="form-group">
            <input type="text" name="tagList" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter tags" formControlName="tagList">
          </div>
          <button class="btn btn-md btn-success float-right">Publish Article</button>
        </form>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class="modal" *ngIf="isBackClicked">
  <p>Do you want to quite?</p>
  <a (click)="handleYesBtn()">Yes</a>
  <a (click)="handleNoBtn()">No</a>
</div>

article.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { FormGroup, FormBuilder } from '@angular/forms';
import { ArticleService } from '../../services/article.service';
import { ArticlePost } from '../../models/article';
import { Location } from "@angular/common";
import { Subscription } from 'rxjs/Subscription';
import { PlatformLocation } from '@angular/common'
import { Router } from '@angular/router';
@Component({
  selector: 'app-article',
  templateUrl: './article.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./article.component.scss']
})
export class ArticleComponent implements OnInit {
  isBackClicked = false;
  articleForm: FormGroup;
  subscription: Subscription;
  constructor(
    private formBuilder: FormBuilder,
    private articleService: ArticleService,
    private router: Router,
    private location: PlatformLocation
  ) {
    this.articleForm = this.formBuilder.group({
      title: "",
      body: "",
      description: "",
      tagList: null
    })
    location.onPopState(() => {
      this.isBackClicked = true;
    });
  }

  ngOnInit() {
  }

  handleYesBtn() {
    this.router.navigateByUrl('/');
  }

  handleNoBtn() {
    this.isBackClicked = false;
  }

  handleSubmit() {
    const article = new ArticlePost(this.articleForm.value);

    this.articleService.addArticle(article).subscribe(data => {
      console.log('data', data);
    })
  }

}

When I clicked back button in browser, it's not show my modal and directly to previous page.

Answer 1

According to the angular.io, you can create a CanDeactivate guard for this kind of uses.

I started from a simple example having two routes with two components HelloComponent and ByeComponent. To leave the HelloComponent, a confirmation dialog is displayed.

First I copied the CanDeactivateGuard from the angular.io example :

import { Injectable }    from '@angular/core';
import { CanDeactivate } from '@angular/router';
import { Observable }    from 'rxjs';

export interface CanComponentDeactivate {
 canDeactivate: () => Observable<boolean> | Promise<boolean> | boolean;
}

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class CanDeactivateGuard implements CanDeactivate<CanComponentDeactivate> {
  canDeactivate(component: CanComponentDeactivate) {
    return component.canDeactivate ? component.canDeactivate() : true;
  }
}

Then I added the CanDeactivate to the routing of component that need confirmation :

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    RouterModule.forChild([
      { path: '', component: HelloComponent,  canDeactivate: [CanDeactivateGuard] }
    ])
  ],
  exports: [RouterModule]
})
export class HelloRoutingModule { }

Finally implemented the canDeactivate function in the related component :

canDeactivate() {
    return confirm('Are you sure you want to leave Hello ?');
}

Here is the link for the running example.

Answer 2

You can use HostListener to handle back button of the browser

 import { HostListener } from '@angular/core';

@HostListener('window:popstate', ['$event'])
  onPopState(event) {
    console.log('Back button pressed');
    //Here you can handle your modal
  }