DurandalJS how to redirect without rendering the page?

Question

Is it possible to navigate to some page by hash and then do some logic and redirect back without rendering new page/module but REFRESH the one, where I was navigating from?

Actually what I want is to do some logic and refresh the same page without showing splash screen.

For example i have simple HTML link:

<a class="language-link" href="#language/en-US">

In language.js i have simple code which is getting data in "activate" function:

define(['plugins/router', 'jquery'], function (router, $) {
return {
    activate: function (culture) {
        return $.post("api/language", { '': culture }, function () {
            router.navigateBack();
        }).then(function () { return false; });
    },
    viewUrl: 'settings/loading'
}; });

Buty my problem is, that for a short period of time, loading.html from viewUrl property is showing up. Right after that I'm going back to previous page.

I want to prevent loading.html page from rendering. How to do that? I'm travelling through the Durandal documentacion and searching in google, but cannot find anything helpfull.

.then(function () { return false; });

The code above was my try to return false from activate function and prevent page from rendering, but does not work :(

EDIT

I want to prevent settings/loading from rendering and REFRESH previous page where I was navigating from.

Answer 1

Yes you can do that by return false using canActivate lifeCycle function (Read more here)

define(['plugins/router', 'jquery'], function (router, $) {
return {
    canActivate: function () {
        // some logic..
        // router.navigateBack();              
        return false;
      }
}; });