Backtrack for JavaScript
A simple way to allow browsing history linking.
Installation
Yarn
$ yarn add backtrack-js
NPM
$ npm install backtrack-js
Usage
-
Assuming you have a back button with
id="universal_back_button"
:Back -
On each page load, require and create a new Backtrack instance with the expected
backButtonId
.var Backtrack = ;var backtrack = "universal_back_button"; -
Call
configureBackButton()
to configure the back button's URL (viahref
attribute) and to pop pages when clicked (viaonClick
attribute).backtrack; -
Call
pushPage()
to push the current page into the history stack so that when the user moves to the next page, clicking the back button, will return the user to the current page.backtrack; -
That's it! Your back button will now automatically be populated with the previous page's URL.
Contributing
We'd love to accept your patches and contributions to this project! Checkout contributing and code of conduct to learn more.
License
Refer to the license file.