@j-hooks/use-prevent-leave

React Hook to prompt the user for confirmation before leaving the page. Useful when changes haven't been saved.

Installation

yarn

yarn add @j-hooks/use-prevent-leave

npm

npm i @j-hooks/use-prevent-leave

Usage

import React from "react";
import usePreventLeave from "@j-hooks/use-prevent-leave";

function App() {
  const { enablePrevent, disablePrevent } = usePreventLeave();
  const saveChanges = async () => {
    enablePrevent();
    await sendToApi();
    disablePrevent();
  };
  return <button onClick={saveChanges}>Save changes</button>;
}

Return

Return value	Type	Description
Functions	Object	A object containing functions enablePrevent and disablePrevent, use this functions to enable/disable the leaving prevention