Add canDeactivateChild guard
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Description
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**What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?**
There is already a canActivateChild guard. Having the symmetric guard is equally important. Not sure why this wasn't added at the same time. We have many scenarios where we need to protect child routes from navigating away if they have pending unsaved changes. That's currently only possible by putting a canDeactivate guard on each child route.
- **Angular version:** Latest
- **Browser:** all
- **Language:** all
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue proposes a new Angular routing guard, canDeactivateChild, symmetric with the existing canActivateChild guard. Start by locating the routing implementation and tests for canActivateChild; the issue names no files or tests, so first establish the API and expected behavior for protecting child routes with pending unsaved changes.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, typescript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100