How to prevent routing and instead display a modal when navigation on a non-permission page?

Question

In my app you can find many routerLinks everywhere across the application. Some of them may not be accessible for some users according to their roles. My auth-guard-service handles this cases.

But what in those cases happens is that the user gets navigated to the forbidden page and then back to the old page.

What I want instead of this is not navigating at all but displaying a modal or toast message (what ever) on the current site.

How can this be done? Here's some of my code:

export class AuthGuardService implements CanActivate {
  constructor(public auth: AuthServiceProvider, public router: Router, private TokenHelper: TokenHelperService) {}

  canActivate(Route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot): Observable<boolean> {
    const expectedRoles = Route.data['authenticate'] as string[];

// ...... and so on (return true or false)

Can you add your `Route` to your question ? I would like to know what type of guard you use. `CanActivate`, `CanLoad`, etc — Martin Choraine, Jul 23 '19 at 12:44

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '19 at 13:47

If the forbidden page user tries to activate is in the lazy loaded module, you can prevent the navigation by putting canLoad guard.

{
  path: 'admin',
  loadChildren: () => import('./admin/admin.module').then(mod => mod.AdminModule),
  canLoad: [AuthGuard]
},

=====

    canLoad(route: Route): boolean {

      return this.checkValidation();
    }

   checkValidation() {
   if (authService.checkRights()) { return true}
   else {
   this.toastService.showToast('Forbiden');
   return false
   }
}

}

How to prevent routing and instead display a modal when navigation on a non-permission page?

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