Angular - ui-router get previous state

Question

Is there a way to get the previous state of the current state    For example I would like to know what the previous state was before current state B  where previous state would have been state A     I am not able to find it in ui-router github doc pages

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If you just need this functionality and want to use it in more than one controller, this is a simple service to track route history:

  (function () {
  'use strict';

  angular
    .module('core')
    .factory('RouterTracker', RouterTracker);

  function RouterTracker($rootScope) {

    var routeHistory = [];
    var service = {
      getRouteHistory: getRouteHistory
    };

    $rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function (ev, to, toParams, from, fromParams) {
      routeHistory.push({route: from, routeParams: fromParams});
    });

    function getRouteHistory() {
      return routeHistory;
    }

    return service;
  }
})();

where the 'core' in .module('core') would be the name of your app/module. Require the service as a dependency to your controller, then in your controller you can do: $scope.routeHistory = RouterTracker.getRouteHistory()

User · Answer

You can return the state this way    state go  state  current parent self name   state params     An example    function          use strict       angular module  app            run Run            ngInject        function Run  rootScope   state              rootScope back   function                  state go  state  current parent self name   state params

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ui-router doesn t track the previous state once it transitions  but the event  stateChangeSuccess is broadcast on the  rootScope when the state changes   You should be able to catch the prior state from that event  from is the state you re leaving     rootScope  on   stateChangeSuccess   function  ev  to  toParams  from  fromParams         assign the  from  parameter to something

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In the following example i created a decorator  runs only once per app at configuration phase  and adds an extra property to  state service  so this approach does not add global variables to  rootscope and does not require to add any extra dependency to other services than  state   In my example i needed to redirect a user to the index page when he was already signed in and when he was not to redirect him to the previous  protected  page after sign in   The only unknown services  for you  that i use are authenticationFactory and appSettings    authenticationFactory just administrates the user login  In this case i use only a method to identify if the user is logged in or not  appSettings are constants just for not use strings everywhere  appSettings states login and appSettings states register contain the name of the state for the login and register url    Then in any controller service etc you need to inject  state service and you can access current and previous url like this    Current   state current name Previous   state previous route name   From the Chrome console   var injector   angular element document body  injector    var  state   injector get   state     state current name   state previous route name    Implementation    I m using angular-ui-router v0 2 17 and angularjs v1 4 9    function angular         use strict        function  stateDecorator  delegate   injector   rootScope  appSettings            function decorated State                 var  state    delegate               state previous   undefined               rootScope  on   stateChangeSuccess   function  ev  to  toParams  from  fromParams                     state previous     route  from  routeParams  fromParams                                 rootScope  on   stateChangeStart   function  event  toState    toParams  fromState  fromParams                      var authenticationFactory    injector get  authenticationFactory                    if   toState name     appSettings states login    toState name     appSettings states register   amp  amp  authenticationFactory isUserLoggedIn                          event preventDefault                         state go appSettings states index                                                  return  state                     return decorated State                stateDecorator  inject      delegate     injector     rootScope    appSettings         angular          module  app core            decorator   state    stateDecorator      angular

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I keep track of previous states in  rootScope  so whenever in need I will just call the below line of code    state go  rootScope previousState     In App js    rootScope  on   stateChangeSuccess   function event  to  toParams  from  fromParams       rootScope previousState   from name

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I use a similar approach to what Endy Tjahjono does   What I do is to save the value of the current state before making a transition  Lets see on an example  imagine this inside a function executed when cliking to whatever triggers the transition    state go   state-whatever     previousState     name    state current name              The key here is the params object  a map of the parameters that will be sent to the state  -    previousState     name    state current name      Note  note that Im only  saving  the name attribute of the  state object  because is the only thing I need for save the state  But we could have the whole state object   Then  state  whatever  got defined like this    state   user-edit       url    whatever    templateUrl    whatever     controller   whateverController as whateverController     params         previousState  null            Here  the key point is the params object   params       previousState  null      Then  inside that state  we can get the previous state like this    state params previousState name

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Add a new property called  previous  to  state on  stateChangeStart   rootScope  on    stateChangeStart     event  to  toParams  from  fromParams     gt           Add  fromParams  to  from      from params   fromParams          Assign  from  to  previous  in  state      state previous   from              Now anywhere you need can use  state you will have previous available   previous Object     name  route name      params Object         someParam  someValue      resolve Object     template  route template      url   route path  someParam    And use it like so    state go   state previous name   state previous params

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For UI-Router   1 0   StateChange events have been deprecated   For complete migration guide  click here  To get the previous state of the current state in UI-Router 1 0     app run function   transitions         transitions onSuccess     function  trans                previous state and paramaters          var previousState   trans from   name           var previousStateParameters   trans params  from

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Here is a really elegant solution from Chris Thielen ui-router-extras    previousState  var previous    previousState get      Gets a reference to the previous state    previous is an object that looks like    state  fromState  params  fromParams   where fromState is the previous state and fromParams is  the previous state parameters

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I use resolve to save the current state data before moving to the new state   angular module  MyModule    config    stateProvider   function   stateProvider         stateProvider          state  mystate                 templateUrl   mytemplate html               controller    PreviousState   function  PreviousState                    if  PreviousState Name     mystate                                                                              resolve                    PreviousState     state   function   state                        var currentStateData                             Name   state current name                          Params   state params                          URL   state href  state current name   state params                                             return currentStateData

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A really simple solution is just to edit the  state current name string and cut out everything including and after the last     - you get the name of the parent state  This doesn t work if you jump a lot between states because it just parses back the current path  But if your states correspond to where you actually are  then this works   var previousState    state current name substring 0   state current name lastIndexOf        state go previousState

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Ok  I know that I am late to the party here  but I am new to angular  I am trying to make this fit into the John Papa style guide here  I wanted to make this reusable so I created in a block  Here is what I came up with   previousStateProvider   function       use strict    angular module  blocks previousState           provider  previousState   previousStateProvider    previousStateProvider  inject      rootScopeProvider     function previousStateProvider  rootScopeProvider        this  get   PreviousState       PreviousState  inject      rootScope             ngInject        function PreviousState  rootScope             rootScope previousParms           rootScope previousState           rootScope currentState            rootScope  on   stateChangeSuccess   function  ev  to  toParams  from  fromParams                 rootScope previousParms   fromParams               rootScope previousState   from name               rootScope currentState   to name                              core module   function       use strict    angular module  myApp Core            Angular modules       ngMessages        ngResource           Custom modules       blocks previousState        blocks router          3rd Party Modules             core config   function       use strict    var core   angular module  myApp Core     core run appRun    function appRun previousState           do nothing  just instantiating the state handler           Any critique on this code will only help me  so please let me know where I can improve this code

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For sake of readability  I ll place my solution  based of stu salsbury s anwser  here   Add this code to your app s abstract template so it runs on every page    rootScope previousState   rootScope currentState   rootScope  on   stateChangeSuccess   function ev  to  toParams  from  fromParams         rootScope previousState   from name       rootScope currentState   to name      console log  Previous state    rootScope previousState      console log  Current state    rootScope currentState        Keeps track of the changes in rootScope  Its pretty handy

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I am stuck with same issue and find the easiest way to do this       Html  lt button type  button  onclick  history back    gt Back lt  button gt    OR    Html  lt button type  button  ng-click  goBack    gt Back lt  button gt     JS  scope goBack   function       window history back          If you want it to be more testable  inject the  window service into your controller and use  window history back

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