You can prevent a transition from happening or prompt the user before leaving a route with a leave hook.
const Home = withRouter(
React.createClass({
componentDidMount() {
this.props.router.setRouteLeaveHook(this.props.route, this.routerWillLeave)
},
routerWillLeave(nextLocation) {
// return false to prevent a transition w/o prompting the user,
// or return a string to allow the user to decide:
// return `null` or nothing to let other hooks to be executed
//
// NOTE: if you return true, other hooks will not be executed!
if (!this.state.isSaved)
return 'Your work is not saved! Are you sure you want to leave?'
},
// ...
})
)Note that this example makes use of the withRouter higher-order component introduced in v2.4.0.