modal-routing

controllers.application.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Controller.extend({
  /*openModal: function(modal, opts) {
      this.controllerFor(modal).set('model', opts);
      return this.render(modal, {
        into: 'application',
        outlet: 'modal'
      });
    },
    closeModal: function() {
      return this.disconnectOutlet({
        outlet: 'modal',
        parentView: 'application'
      });
    }*/
});

controllers.posts.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Controller.extend({
  actions: {
  	openPost(post) {
      this.set('post', post);
    }
  }
});

router.js

import Ember from 'ember';
import config from './config/environment';

const Router = Ember.Router.extend({
  location: 'none',
  rootURL: config.rootURL
});

Router.map(function() {
  this.route('posts', {path: 'posts'});
  this.route('post', {path: 'posts/:post_id'});
});

export default Router;

routes.index.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  beforeModel() {
  	this.transitionTo('posts');
  }
});

routes.post.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  model() {
  	
  }
});

routes.posts.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  model() {
  	const models = new Array(6).fill(0).map((v,k) => {
			return Ember.Object.create({
				id: k+1
			});
		});
		return Ember.RSVP.Promise.resolve(Ember.A(models));
  }
});

templates.application.hbs

<p>This is an example with two pages.We have two routes: "{{link-to "posts" "posts"}}" and "{{link-to "post" "post" 1}}. They are not nested.</p>

<p>When you visit a post from a link or action it should open in a modal with the posts behind.</p>

<p>If you visit the post directly either from an external URL or by refreshing, it will show the post by itself. And not as a modal.</p>

<p>Currently, we have a link-to helper with an action nested inside. This ensures we have links for fallback but the action takes priority and sets a <code>post</code> model on the posts controller to show it in a modal. Perhaps the action could set the URL as well?</p>

{{outlet}}

templates.components.post-item.hbs

Post {{post.id}}

{{yield}}

templates.post.hbs

<h2>Post</h2>

{{model}}

{{post-item post=model}}

templates.posts.hbs

<h2>Posts</h2>

{{#each model as |post|}}
	<ul class="Post">
    {{#link-to "post" post.id}}
      <li {{action "openPost" post bubbles=false}}>
       {{post-item post=post}}
      </li>
    {{/link-to}}
  </ul>
{{/each}}

<h3>Posts modal</h3>

{{#if post}}
	<div style="border: 1px solid">
		{{post-item post=post}}
  </div>
{{/if}}

twiddle.json

{
  "version": "0.10.6",
  "EmberENV": {
    "FEATURES": {}
  },
  "options": {
    "use_pods": false,
    "enable-testing": false
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.js",
    "ember": "2.9.0",
    "ember-data": "2.9.0",
    "ember-template-compiler": "2.9.0",
    "ember-testing": "2.9.0"
  },
  "addons": {}
}