Environment Details

• PHP Version: 8.5.1
• Laravel Version: 13.6.0
• React or Vue Version: 3.5.13 Vue
• Inertia.js Version: 3.0.0
• Inertia Modal Version: 3.0.1

Bug Report

Description

After upgrading to v3, visiting a modal route URL directly no longer opens the modal. In v2 (and previous versions), this worked as expected.

Steps To Reproduce

Route::inertia('/', 'Welcome')->name('home');

Route::get('/modal-example', function () {
    return Inertia::modal('ModalExample')->baseRoute('home');
});

<ModalLink navigate href="/modal-example">Open Modal</ModalLink>

Works fine when the ModalLink is clicked. However, if you visit /modal-example directly (or hard refresh) in the location/URL bar, the modal does not show up.

👉 GitHub Repo Example: https://github.com/drehimself/inertia-modal-example

Repo includes a temp workaround (appWoarkaround.ts) that AI helped scaffold out.

Expected Behavior

The modal should pop up when the URL is visited directly (or refreshed).

Actual Behavior

The modal does not show up, and the URL is reset to the base route defined.