import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ActivatedRoute, Router } from '@angular/router';
import { Location } from '@angular/common';
@Component({
selector: 'app-foo',
template: ''
})
export class FooComponent {
private readonly canGoBack: boolean;
constructor(
private readonly route: ActivatedRoute,
private readonly router: Router,
private readonly location: Location
) {
// This is where the check is done. Make sure to do this
// here in the constructor, otherwise `getCurrentNavigation()`
// will return null.
this.canGoBack = !!(this.router.getCurrentNavigation()?.previousNavigation);
}
goBack(): void {
if (this.canGoBack) {
// We can safely go back to the previous location as
// we know it's within our app.
this.location.back();
} else {
// There's no previous navigation.
// Here we decide where to go. For example, let's say the
// upper level is the index page, so we go up one level.
this.router.navigate(['..'], {relativeTo: this.route});
}
}
}
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Location } from '@angular/common';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';
const EMPTY_HISTORY_LENGTH = 2;
/**
* This service helps to Navigate back to the prev page, and if no prev page,
* will redirect to the fallback url.
*/
@Injectable()
export class UrlBackService {
constructor(private router: Router, private location: Location) {}
/**
* This method will back you to the previous page,
* if no previous page exists, will redirect you to the fallback url.
* @param href - url, if tryNativeFirst is provided, this is fallback url
* @param tryNativeFirst - try to go back natively using browser history state.
*/
back(href: string, tryNativeFirst: boolean = false) {
if (tryNativeFirst) {
if (history.length === EMPTY_HISTORY_LENGTH) {
this.router.navigate(UrlBackService.urlToArray(href));
} else {
this.location.back();
}
} else {
this.router.navigate(UrlBackService.urlToArray(href));
}
}
/**
* In case that router.navigate method tries to escape all '/' in the string,
* was decided to split string to array, and if URL starts or ends with slash - remove them, eg:
* /my/url will be split to ['', 'my', 'url'], so we need to remove empty spaces use filter function.
* @param href
* @private
*/
private static urlToArray(href: string) {
return href.split('/').filter((notEmpty) => notEmpty);
}
}
url-back.service.spec.ts
import { TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { UrlBackService } from './url-back.service';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';
import { Location } from '@angular/common';
import { RouterTestingModule } from '@angular/router/testing';
describe('UrlBackService', () => {
let service: UrlBackService;
let router: Router;
let location: Location;
beforeEach(() => {
TestBed.configureTestingModule({
imports: [RouterTestingModule],
providers: [UrlBackService],
});
service = TestBed.inject(UrlBackService);
router = TestBed.inject(Router);
location = TestBed.inject(Location);
});
it('should be created', () => {
expect(service).toBeTruthy();
});
it('no meter what history state is, it should be redirected to the /my/url', () => {
spyOn(router, 'navigate');
service.back('/my/url');
expect(router.navigate).toHaveBeenCalledWith(['my', 'url']);
});
it('in case history is empty push to /my/url', () => {
spyOn(router, 'navigate');
service.back('/my/url', true);
expect(router.navigate).toHaveBeenCalledWith(['my', 'url']);
});
it('in case history is NOT empty push to url1', () => {
spyOn(location, 'back');
window.history.pushState(null, '', 'url1');
service.back('/my/url', true);
expect(location.back).toHaveBeenCalled();
});
});