react-router go back a page how do you configure history?

Question

Can anyone please tell me how I can go back to the previous page rather than a specific route?

When using this code:

var BackButton = React.createCla         


        

Answer 1

React Router v6

useNavigate Hook is the recommended way to go back now:

import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';

function App() {
  const navigate = useNavigate();

  return (
    <>
      <button onClick={() => navigate(-1)}>go back</button>
      <button onClick={() => navigate(1)}>go forward</button>
    </>
  );
}

Codesandbox sample

Go back/forward multiple history stack entries:

<button onClick={() => navigate(-2)}>go two back</button>
<button onClick={() => navigate(2)}>go two forward</button>

Go to specific route:

navigate("users") // go to users route, like history.push
navigate("users", { replace: true }) // go to users route, like history.replace
navigate("users", { state }) // go to users route, pass some state in

useNavigate replaces useHistory to support upcoming React Suspense/Concurrent mode better.

Answer 2

ES6 method without mixins using react-router, stateless function.

import React from 'react'
import { browserHistory } from 'react-router'

export const Test = () => (
  <div className="">
    <button onClick={browserHistory.goBack}>Back</button>
  </div>
)

Answer 3

This is a working BackButton component (React 0.14):

var React = require('react');
var Router = require('react-router');

var History = Router.History;

var BackButton = React.createClass({
  mixins: [ History ],
  render: function() {
    return (
      <button className="back" onClick={this.history.goBack}>{this.props.children}</button>
    );
  }
});

module.exports = BackButton;

You can off course do something like this if there is no history:

<button className="back" onClick={goBack}>{this.props.children}</button>

function goBack(e) {
  if (/* no history */) {
    e.preventDefault();
  } else {
    this.history.goBack();
  }
}

Answer 4

Simply use like this

<span onClick={() => this.props.history.goBack()}>Back</span>

Answer 5

In react-router v4.x you can use history.goBack which is equivalent to history.go(-1).

App.js

import React from "react";
import { render } from "react-dom";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";
import Home from "./Home";
import About from "./About";
import Contact from "./Contact";
import Back from "./Back";

const styles = {
  fontFamily: "sans-serif",
  textAlign: "left"
};

const App = () => (
  <div style={styles}>
    <Router>
      <div>
        <ul>
          <li><Link to="/">Home</Link></li>
          <li><Link to="/about">About</Link></li>
          <li><Link to="/contact">Contact</Link></li>
        </ul>

        <hr />

        <Route exact path="/" component={Home} />
        <Route path="/about" component={About} />
        <Route path="/contact" component={Contact} />

        <Back />{/* <----- This is component that will render Back button */}
      </div>
    </Router>
  </div>
);

render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));

Back.js

import React from "react";
import { withRouter } from "react-router-dom";

const Back = ({ history }) => (
  <button onClick={history.goBack}>Back to previous page</button>
);

export default withRouter(Back);

Demo: https://codesandbox.io/s/ywmvp95wpj

Please remember that by using history your users can leave because history.goBack() can load a page that visitor has visited before opening your application.

---

To prevent such situation as described above, I've created a simple library react-router-last-location that watch your users last location.

Usage is very straight forward. First you need to install react-router-dom and react-router-last-location from npm.

npm install react-router-dom react-router-last-location --save

Then use LastLocationProvider as below:

App.js

import React from "react";
import { render } from "react-dom";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";
import { LastLocationProvider } from "react-router-last-location";
//              ↑
//              |
//              |
//
//       Import provider
//
import Home from "./Home";
import About from "./About";
import Contact from "./Contact";
import Back from "./Back";

const styles = {
  fontFamily: "sans-serif",
  textAlign: "left"
};

const App = () => (
  <div style={styles}>
    <h5>Click on About to see your last location</h5>
    <Router>
      <LastLocationProvider>{/* <---- Put provider inside <Router> */}
        <div>
          <ul>
            <li><Link to="/">Home</Link></li>
            <li><Link to="/about">About</Link></li>
            <li><Link to="/contact">Contact</Link></li>
          </ul>

          <hr />

          <Route exact path="/" component={Home} />
          <Route path="/about" component={About} />
          <Route path="/contact" component={Contact} />

          <Back />
        </div>
      </LastLocationProvider>
    </Router>
  </div>
);

render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));

Back.js

import React from "react";
import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
import { withLastLocation } from "react-router-last-location";
//              ↑
//              |
//              |
//
//    `withLastLocation` higher order component
//    will pass `lastLocation` to your component               
//
//                   |
//                   |
//                   ↓
const Back = ({ lastLocation }) => (
  lastLocation && <Link to={lastLocation || '/'}>Back to previous page</Link>
);


//          Remember to wrap
//   your component before exporting
//
//                   |
//                   |
//                   ↓
export default withLastLocation(Back);

Demo: https://codesandbox.io/s/727nqm99jj

Answer 6

Using React Hooks

Import:

import { useHistory } from "react-router-dom";

In stateless component:

let history = useHistory();

On Event

history.goBack()