You can set up-history="false" and there'd be no navigation when opening the modal, so when you refresh the page it'd refresh the parent layer not the modal. W

You can set up-history="false" and there'd be no navigation when opening the modal, so when you refresh the page it'd refresh the parent layer not the modal. What's more arguable I think is how pressing the browser Back button doesn't preserve the layers, but opens the previous page as a full page. I think that can be changed in a config somewhere, though.