Vue-router: Question: Getting name of previous route

[thomas-alrek]

Hello.

I was wondering if there is a method to get the name of the previous route (the route that you get by calling $router.back()?

So if I make a navigation button, instead of saying just "Go back", i could make it say e.g "Go back to {name}"?

[LinusBorg]

Hello @thomas-alrek,

Thank your for your interest in this project.

However, your issue is a usage/support question, and the issue tracker is reserved exclusively for bug reports and feature requests (as outlined in our Contributing Guide).

We encourage you to ask it on the forum , Stack Overflow or on gitter and are happy to help you out there.

Hint: use an router.afterEach() nagigation guard to cache the previous route object.

[RouillerRomain]

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[adamberryhuff]

Basically he's saying that you can use router.beforeEach or router.afterEach to intercept the route the browser is moving from and going to and cache that data in localstorage/Vuex/cookies essentially maintaining your own browser history stack.

I think it's kind of dumb that browser API's and Vue Router don't offer this for you. I mean, clearly that stack data lives back there somewhere or else they wouldn't know where to put you when you call go(-1) so why not make that data publicly available.