A way to detect if user has history on current site

[Alexander G.]

What problem is this solving

• A back button. Currently router.back() can navigate you to another site

Proposed solution

• Add a boolean property to Router named canGoBack
  or
• Make option for .go() (.forward(), .backward())

  router.back({ routeIfLeaving: '/app' })

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Use exposed in history.state property back to determine this

  async function navigate() {
    // This is internal for vue router, there is no other way to detect
    // is user has previous history on current site
    // https://github.com/vuejs/router/blob/main/packages/router/src/history/html5.ts#L25
    if (history.state.back) {
      router.back();
    } else {
      await router.push({ path: localePath(props.path) });
    }
  }

[gegoune]

A back button. Currently router.back() can navigate you to another site

Side note: I would never come back to your site ever again if it had behaviour like this (if I am understanding you correctly here). It's just not a nice practice.

[Alexander G.]

A back button. Currently router.back() can navigate you to another site

Side note: I would never come back to your site ever again if it had behaviour like this (if I am understanding you correctly here). It's just not a nice practice.

No, you misunderstood, it's more app-like

You can be redirected from help article to /settings/security
And it's more logical that back button redirects you to /settings, rather than to article you came from, especially if app is installed PWA

[Eduardo San Martin Morote]

You can already write to history.state with history.replacestate in a router.aftereach hook to have this feature