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What are intercepting routes in Next.js and what are they used for?

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Understand the problem

Showing a route's content in the current layout (e.g. modals).

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Intercepting routes (the (.) / (..) conventions) let you load a route within the current page's context instead of a full navigation — classically to show a photo/detail in a modal while keeping the URL shareable, falling back to the full page on reload.

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Photo modal via interception + slot
app/
  feed/page.tsx                      # list of photos
  photo/[id]/page.tsx                # full standalone page (reload/direct)
  @modal/
    (.)photo/[id]/page.tsx           # intercepts soft-nav → render as modal
    default.tsx                      # renders nothing when no modal
# Clicking a photo opens the modal (URL = /photo/123); reload shows the full page.
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