How to go back to previous route in react-router-dom v6
ReactjsReact RouterReact Router-DomReactjs Problem Overview
On early versions we can go back to previous route using history.
history.goBack()
How I can achieve that with v6 of react-router-dom?
Reactjs Solutions
Solution 1 - Reactjs
Try this approach
import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';
function YourApp() {
const navigate = useNavigate();
return (
<>
<button onClick={() => navigate(-1)}>go back</button>
</>
);
}
Solution 2 - Reactjs
in V6,
import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';
function App() {
const navigate = useNavigate();
return (
<>
<button onClick={() => navigate(-2)}>Go 2 pages back</button>
<button onClick={() => navigate(-1)}>Go back</button>
<button onClick={() => navigate(1)}>Go forward</button>
<button onClick={() => navigate(2)}>Go 2 pages forward</button>
</>
);
}
Solution 3 - Reactjs
In old versions of react-router-dom there exists functions pop
you can reach them like:
const history = useHistory();
history.pop()
now in v6 you can use function useNavigate
const navigate = useNavigate();
navigate(-1) // you will go one page back
navigate(-2) // you will go two pages back
Solution 4 - Reactjs
Just in case anyone gets here like I did trying to navigate back OR navigate somewhere else if you can't navigate back (e.g. link opened in new tab), there doesn't seem to be any way of verifying the history with react-router in v6. However it seems you can access window.history.state which has an idx property that is zero if you're at the start of the history stack.
It's possible there are some gotchas around it that I haven't hit up against, but it's working for me:
import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';
// ...
const navigate = useNavigate();
// ...
if (window.history.state && window.history.state.idx > 0) {
navigate(-1);
} else {
navigate('/', { replace: true }); // the current entry in the history stack will be replaced with the new one with { replace: true }
}
Solution 5 - Reactjs
There is another way using a delta (number) in react-router Links v6 :
const BackButton = () => {
return (
<Link to={-1}>
Back
</Link>
);
};
Unfortunately there is a type error in typescript, Link component does not accept numbers, but still it works.