How to detect browser back button click event using polymer?

Question

Is it possible to detect that a user entered a page through using the history back button in his browser? Preferably I want to detect this action using polymer.

Wriggle

No,it's not possible (easily). – Led

possible duplicate of #1844991 – Celestinacelestine

Do you use Polymer's router? – Counterweight

yes.. i use <app-route> – Wriggle

Have you tried the history API? – Counterweight

Answer 1

You could probably listen on the popstate event as documented here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/popstate

This should fire when the back button is clicked, history.back() is called, etc.

Dorweiler