List-detail: different behavior depending on origin of navigation

[manelio]

I'm struggling with a situation:

I have a page with a list of items, let's say /products. Clicking on a product navigates to a page /products/:productId. I'm using route loaders in both cases.

By clicking on the list, the product should be opened in a modal component over the list. I did this by using the Outlet component and useMatchRoute.

What I want to achieve is to differentiate the case of a click on the list from the case of navigation to /products/:productId from wherever else, so I can render a modal or a full page.

And a step farther: navigating from wherever else, the default behavior of waiting until route loader finishes is perfect. But clicking on the list should open the modal instantly and then retrieve the data.

Can someone provide some advice or guidance on this?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT:

I'm investigating how to use the from param, but I think is not what I'm looking for. Maybe some kind of meta param would be useful.