Prevent the default modal from showing, to handle server errors

[gyaaniguy]

When uploading a file, that is larger than what is allowed by the web-server. The request never reaches laravel.
So instead of a InertiaResponse, we get a html response.
I understand this causes Inertia to show a huge modal, with the error html.

I feel this is less than ideal. The modal should be optional, I should be able to catch such a situation and instead show a styled message or alert box. Is this possible ? Or any other way to do it ?