Add a way to catch a route cancel

[ghost]

There are occasions where a route should be handled everytime it’s considered. For example, I’ve seen it suggested that VueRouter could be used to show a loading indicator by doing the following:

router.beforeEach((to, from, next) => {
    LoadIndicator.show();
    next();
});
router.afterEach((to, from) => {
    LoadIndicator.hide();
});

A route can be cancelled in a component’s beforeRouteEnter method with next(false), but AfterEach won’t fire since the route never actually loaded and the loading indicatior is stuck.

Something like that would be great:

router.cancel((to, from) => {
    LoadIndicator.hide();
});

[posva]

Use router.onError in combination with next(err) (https://router.vuejs.org/en/api/router-instance.html#methods). It also allows you turn the bar red and similar things

[JounQin]

This also occurs on trying to go to another route but which redirects to itself.

[posva]

@JounQin mhh, that may be different though. Let me give it a second look

[ghost]

@JounQin wrote:

This also occurs on trying to go to another route but which redirects to itself

Second this... there's no way to catch redirect to itself

[posva]

Closing in favour of #2012
if you have a use case about hooking on redirects, I'll like to hear it there 🙂