Option to show a pop confirmation before route change

[AkashGoenka]

Describe the feature you'd like to request

I had come across a use case where we had to warn user before they leave the page to another URL or in App Navigation. It would be great to have a feature to perform some logic before route change is initiated.

Describe the solution you'd like

A router event like beforeRouteChange that triggers a callback function where additional business logic can be executed and the routing can be halted/continued on the basis of a boolean returned by the callback.

Another option would be something similar to https://reactrouter.com/core/api/Prompt

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've tried to use window.onbeforeunloadevent, but this does not work in all scenarios (especially in app navigation). It is triggered mostly on closing the tab/browser window.

Another option was a workaround suggested in - #2476 (comment)

[wadehammes]

You could build something similar using router.events -> https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next/router#routerevents

[AkashGoenka]

#2476 (comment) makes use of https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next/router#routerevents. But that seems more like a workaround (not the cleanest way). I want to implement some checks before the next framework starts to unmount the component.

[AkashGoenka]

Hey guys, just wanted to know if this is going to be considered in any of the future updates to next/router